Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

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

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Scrutton, T. L.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Shakespeare, William

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Thomas, Dylan

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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

George Ade

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Warren Buffett

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Revson, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ovid

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hook, Harold

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An