Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Aldus Manutius

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Bean, L.L.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

11.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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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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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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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Malek, Fred

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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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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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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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 do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.