Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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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

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

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

Ford, Henry

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Riorio

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

19.

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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

22.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Malek, Fred

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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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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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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