Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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

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

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

A hard thing about business is minding your own

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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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

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Proverb, American

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

Aldus Manutius

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Bond, Alan

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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