Motivational Quotes

Business

Every business is built on friendship.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Olsen, Kenneth

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Morley, John

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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 buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

14.

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

Blair, Tony

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Malek, Fred

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Basinger, Kim

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Gerber, Michael E.

30.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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