Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

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

Revson, Charles

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

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Branson, Richard

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Galvin, Robert

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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 business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, American

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

George Ade

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication