Motivational Quotes

Business

Get the best people and train them well.

- Merrill, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Field, Marshall

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Patterson, John H.

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Revson, Charles

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

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Armour, P. D.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Bond, Alan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Ogilvy, David

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken