Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Gerber, Michael E.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

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

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

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Hook, Harold

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

Revson, Charles

11.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

15.

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

16.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

17.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Proverb, German

19.

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

Dickens, Charles

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

24.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

25.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

26.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

27.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

33.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

34.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

44.

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

Blair, Tony

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Bean, L.L.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.