Motivational Quotes

Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Business

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Field, Marshall

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Ovid

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

11.

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

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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 generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Basinger, Kim

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Branson, Richard

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Location, location, location.

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

Tara Hunt

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

Bond, Alan

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Galvin, Robert

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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.