Motivational Quotes

Business

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.