Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Branson, Richard

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

18.

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

19.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Jacobs, Randall

21.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

22.

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

Ovid

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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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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Forbes, B. C.

27.

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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

29.

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

Riorio

30.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

33.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

34.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Proverb

37.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Morley, John

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

48.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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

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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