Motivational Quotes

Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Armour, P. D.

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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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Revson, Charles

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

Blair, Tony

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose