Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Riklis, Meshulam

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, 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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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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Walton, Sam

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.