Business Quotes

If you come across a good one, share it here (it can be your own of course).

Customers buy for their reasons, not yours.
- Orvel Ray Wilson

Marketing is not an event, but a process . . . It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.
- Jay Conrad Levinson

If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language in which they think.
- David Ogilvy

I once used the word "obsolete" in a headline, only to discover that 43% of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline I used the word "ineffable,"¹ only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.
- David Ogilvy

If you think advertising doesn't work, consider the millions of Americans that now think yogurt tastes good.
- Joe L. Whitley

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.
Sergey Brin

I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.
Howard Stern

It is a pretty recognizable brand name. Originally it was "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" but we settled on "Yahoo".
Jerry Yang

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

Don't quack like a duck.. soar like an eagle.
Ken Blanchard

I'm probably never going to be satisfied with anything we do. I think there's always the possibility of doing better. And I'd say we're doing better than we were a year ago, in terms of delivery and quality of service, but nowhere near what we should be doing.
Steve Case

I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun.
Walter Chrysler

Businesses are made by people. We've proven time and time again that you can have wonderful shop, and put a bloke in there who's no good, and he'll stuff it up. Put a good bloke in, and it just turns around like that.
Gerry Harvey

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. -Mark Twain

If you experience dizziness, shaking or violent mood swings; drink more Machiatto coffee. -Eddie Henrard

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.
-Dave Barry

'This means that you can save yourself and the planet. Eat organic for your health and our future'. -Heather from Organic Essentials.

"The pay is not much, but the benefits are out of this world". an advertisement I saw on a Melbourne tram, advertising the priesthood. -Tom.

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