Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Armour, P. D.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Warren Buffett

11.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

12.

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

13.

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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Field, Marshall

16.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

17.

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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

20.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

22.

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

Riorio

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

Malek, Fred

24.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

27.

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

Barzan, Gerald

28.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

29.

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

Mitchell Caplan

30.

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

Tara Hunt

31.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

32.

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.

33.

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

Rena, Peter

34.

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

Iacocca, Lee

35.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

36.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Bean, L.L.

40.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.