Quotes about business
business men order
Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business. Duke of Wellington
business crazy ice
If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy! Dorothy Hamill
business inspiration giving
It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back. Dorothy L. Sayers
business perfect great-restaurants
Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong. Don Porter
business fun mean
Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything. Dweezil Zappa
business men decision
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed. Clare Boothe Luce
business social-unrest done
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
business ties people
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change. Desmond Tutu
business lying writing
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. David Ogilvy
business advertising instinct
Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?
business writing mean
If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then you've got to close the door and write something - that is the moment of truth which we all try to postpone as long as possible.
business lying agency
Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency to be impartial when its vested interest lies wholly in the direction of increasing your commissionable advertising.
business mergers said
I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
business doe advertising
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
business people enemy
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
business insightful marketing
What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
business marketing advertising
Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
business believe marketing
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
business lying writing
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
business average people
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
business trying jargon
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
business thinking honest
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.
business agency worry
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
business writing thinking
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
business design television
Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
business drawing attention
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
business testing-yourself advertising
Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.
business top-management service-culture
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
business organization important
What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
business world next
The next horizon will be deep integration of the physical and interactive worlds. The future of online is offline. Cyriac Roeding
business needs singers
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop. Cynthia Weil
business kfc giving
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. Colonel Sanders
business smart thinking
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. David Zucker