Motivational Quotes

Business

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Dickens, Charles

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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

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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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 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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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 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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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

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Ovid

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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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.