Motivational Quotes

Business

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Business

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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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 is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Wang, An

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.