Quotes about business

"Business is a combination of war and sport."

Maurois, Andre on 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 on business   

"In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks."

Mcnealy, Scott on business   

"Get the best people and train them well."

Merrill, Charles on business   

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

Mophatlane, Isaac on business
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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 on business   

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."

Morley, John on business   

"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 on business   

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

Nevill, Dorothy on business   

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

Ogilvy, David on business   

"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 on business   

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

Ogilvy, David on business   

"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 on business
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"You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to."

Olsen, Kenneth on business   

"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 on business   

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

Onassis, Aristotle on business   

"One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas."

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F. on business   

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

Ovid on business   

"To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them."

Patterson, John H. on business   

"Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope."

Penn, William on business   

"Every business is built on friendship."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on business
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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 on business   

"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 on business   

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

Peters, Thomas J. on business   

"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 on business   

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius on business   

"We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace."

Pritchett, Lew on business   

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

Proverb on business   

"Cut your losses and let your profits run."

Proverb, American on business   

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

Proverb, American on business   

"Don't open a shop unless you like to smile."

Proverb, Chinese on business   

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

Proverb, German on business   

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."

Reagan, Ronald on business   

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

Rena, Peter on business   

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

Revson, Charles on business   

"The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out."

Riklis, Meshulam on business   

"You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you."

Riorio on business   

"Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible."

Ritz, Cesar on business   

"Quality, service, cleanliness, and value."

Ross, Steven J. on business   

"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."

Rothschild, Sir Nathan on business