Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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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

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

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bond, Alan

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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.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Dane, Frank

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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