Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

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

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Leavitt, Theodore

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Welch, John

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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

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Onassis, Aristotle