Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Woolworth, F. W.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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

David Letterman

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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

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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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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

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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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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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

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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Galvin, Robert

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