Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Little, Royal

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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

George Ade

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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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 more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Proverb, German

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

Bean, L.L.

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