Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Olsen, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Business

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Branson, Richard

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Riklis, Meshulam

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morley, John

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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

11.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

12.

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

Barzan, Gerald

13.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

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

Proverb, German

15.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

16.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

17.

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

Walton, Sam

18.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

19.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

20.

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.

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

23.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

25.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

26.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

27.

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

28.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

29.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

30.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

31.

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

32.

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

Revson, Charles

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

36.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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

39.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

40.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

41.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.