Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

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

Bean, L.L.

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

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Iacocca, Lee

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Ogilvy, David

10.

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

11.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

12.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

17.

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

Dane, Frank

18.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

19.

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

20.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

21.

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

Aldus Manutius

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

30.

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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

George Ade

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray