Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Revson, Charles

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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 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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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

20.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Proverb

24.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Dane, Frank

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

35.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Ovid

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

38.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

40.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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.

42.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

43.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Welch, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.