Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Armour, P. D.

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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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Branson, Richard

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

29.

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

Oscar Wilde

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Proverb, American

35.

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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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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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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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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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

David Letterman

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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.

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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