Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Nevill, Dorothy

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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.

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.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bean, L.L.

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Dane, Frank

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Armour, P. D.

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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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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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own