Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Brown, Derby

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

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

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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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 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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Oscar Wilde