Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Shakespeare, William

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Perot, H. Ross

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Mitchell Caplan

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

10.

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

11.

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

Brown, Derby

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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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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

15.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

17.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

18.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

19.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

20.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

21.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

23.

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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

25.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

26.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

27.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

28.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

29.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

30.

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

Aldus Manutius

31.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

32.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

33.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

34.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

35.

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

Kiam, Victor

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

39.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

40.

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

Morley, John

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

44.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

45.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

46.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

48.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

49.

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

Little, Royal