Motivational Quotes

Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Blair, Tony

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

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

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

Morley, John

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

12.

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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

14.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

15.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Rena, Peter

18.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

19.

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

Walton, Sam

20.

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

Revson, Charles

21.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

22.

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

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

31.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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

33.

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

Field, Marshall

34.

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

Little, Royal

35.

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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Ford, Henry

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

46.

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

Aldus Manutius

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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