Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Best Quotes about Business

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Proverb

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

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Jurgen Schrempp

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Field, Marshall

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

10.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Iacocca, Lee

16.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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

18.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

19.

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

Proverb, American

20.

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

Revson, Charles

21.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

27.

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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

35.

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

43.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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