Motivational Quotes

Business

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

- Frand, Erwin

Best Quotes about Business

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.