Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Wang, An

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Kiam, Victor

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Proverb, German

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Hook, Harold

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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 vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.