Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riorio

Best Quotes about Business

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Dane, Frank

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

10.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

11.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

12.

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

13.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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

18.

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

19.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

20.

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

Ogilvy, David

21.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Basinger, Kim

25.

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

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

28.

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.

29.

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

Hook, Harold

30.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

35.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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

37.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

38.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

40.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

41.

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

Morley, John

42.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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