Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

- Beaverbrook, Lord

Best Quotes about Business

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Armour, P. D.

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

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

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.

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

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Field, Marshall

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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

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

Proverb

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

David Letterman

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Bond, Alan

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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.

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

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Adolt, H. V.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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

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

Manzi, Jim

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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

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