Motivational Quotes

Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Business

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

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

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.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Malek, Fred

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

Proverb, American

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Bond, Alan

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

David Letterman

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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