Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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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.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Dane, Frank

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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Branson, Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

31.

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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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

34.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Blair, Tony

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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.