Motivational Quotes

Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

- Henderson, Bruce

Best Quotes about Business

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Branson, Richard

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

Cardenas, Ruben

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Buffett, Warren

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Field, Marshall

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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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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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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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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Hawken, Paul

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