Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Brown, Derby

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

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.

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

Kiam, Victor

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Malek, Fred

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Aldus Manutius

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Dane, Frank

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

Barzan, Gerald

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Walton, Sam

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

Bean, L.L.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Galvin, Robert

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Proverb

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John