Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

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

Galvin, Robert

11.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

Aldus Manutius

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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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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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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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

34.

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.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

38.

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 consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Barzan, Gerald

42.

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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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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

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.