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

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

Morley, John

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

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

Warren Buffett

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

Armour, P. D.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Location, location, location.

Dillard, 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.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kiam, Victor

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Rena, Peter

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.