Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riklis, Meshulam

Best Quotes about Business

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

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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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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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

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Bean, L.L.

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.