Motivational Quotes

Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

- Gilbey, Walter

Best Quotes about Business

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

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

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.

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

George Ade

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Dickens, Charles

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Revson, Charles

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

35.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

36.

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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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

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Ovid

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Onassis, Aristotle