Motivational Quotes

Business

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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

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

Little, Royal

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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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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 propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Ovid

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Walton, Sam