Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Welch, John

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bond, Alan

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

Proverb, American

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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 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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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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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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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The chief business of the American people is business.