Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bean, L.L.

Best Quotes about Business

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Welch, John

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

Forbes, B. C.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

10.

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.

11.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

12.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

13.

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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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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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

16.

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

17.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

18.

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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

21.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

22.

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

Hawken, Paul

23.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

26.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Field, Marshall

30.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

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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

33.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

34.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

35.

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

Revson, Charles

36.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Branson, Richard

38.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Proverb

40.

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

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

Walton, Sam

42.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

43.

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

44.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

45.

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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

49.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Mitchell Caplan