Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Wang, An

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

Field, Marshall

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Galvin, Robert

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

19.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Tara Hunt

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

George Ade

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

David Letterman

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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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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

36.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Dumas, Alexandre

41.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

43.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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, 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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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