Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Watson, Thomas J.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Wang, An

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Revson, Charles

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Armour, P. D.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Walton, Sam

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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Few great men could pass personal.