Motivational Quotes

Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Business

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Jacobs, Randall

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Bond, Alan

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

36.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

45.

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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows