Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riklis, Meshulam

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 let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

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

Revson, Charles

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Proverb

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Galvin, Robert

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Field, Marshall

36.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont