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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

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

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Ovid

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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