Motivational Quotes

Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

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

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Branson, Richard

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, German

13.

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

Iacocca, Lee

14.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

15.

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

16.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

17.

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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

19.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

20.

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

21.

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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

24.

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

25.

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

Basinger, Kim

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

28.

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

Oscar Wilde

29.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

30.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

31.

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.

32.

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

Forbes, B. C.

33.

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

Galvin, Robert

34.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

35.

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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

37.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

38.

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.

39.

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

Bean, L.L.

40.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

41.

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

Field, Marshall

42.

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

Little, Royal

43.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

44.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

45.

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

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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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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

49.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew