Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bean, L.L.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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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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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Dickens, Charles

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

31.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Patterson, John H.

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Brown, Derby

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