Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Armour, P. D.

Best Quotes about Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

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

11.

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

Riorio

12.

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

13.

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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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

15.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

16.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

17.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

18.

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

19.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

20.

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

Ford, Henry

21.

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

22.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

25.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

26.

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

John Cleese

27.

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

Malek, Fred

28.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

29.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

30.

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

Jacobs, Randall

31.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

32.

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

33.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

36.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

37.

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

Iacocca, Lee

38.

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

39.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Ford, Henry

42.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

43.

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

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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.

46.

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

Oscar Wilde

47.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

48.

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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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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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