Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Walton, Sam

10.

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

11.

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

Bean, L.L.

12.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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 consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

16.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

18.

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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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

26.

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

27.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

29.

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

30.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

31.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

32.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

33.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

37.

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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Manzi, Jim

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Malek, Fred

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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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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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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.

47.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.