Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Galvin, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Hawken, Paul

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Galvin, Robert

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor