Motivational Quotes

Business

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

- Warren Buffett

Best Quotes about Business

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Proverb

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Walton, Sam

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.