Motivational Quotes

Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Armour, P. D.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Manzi, Jim

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

11.

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

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

Aldus Manutius

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Malek, Fred

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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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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 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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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 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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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A hard thing about business is minding your own