Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Armour, P. D.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Barzan, Gerald

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, German

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

10.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

11.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

13.

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

Jacobs, Randall

14.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

15.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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.

Morgan, John Pierpont

17.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

18.

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.

19.

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

David Letterman

20.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

21.

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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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.

23.

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

24.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Ovid

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

Ford, Henry

29.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

30.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

31.

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

34.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

44.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

45.

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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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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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

48.

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.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew