Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Onassis, Aristotle

Best Quotes about Business

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Wang, An

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

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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.

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

Malek, Fred

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Dane, Frank

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Proverb, American

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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter