Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Nevill, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Armour, P. D.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Aldus Manutius

10.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

11.

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

Tara Hunt

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

17.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

28.

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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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

31.

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

Little, Royal

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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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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

39.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

40.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Proverb, American

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

Woolworth, F. W.