Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Armour, P. D.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Ovid

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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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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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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Field, Marshall

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Revson, Charles

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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