Motivational Quotes

Business

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

- Blair, Tony

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

11.

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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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

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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

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

Branson, Richard

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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 big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Riorio

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Bean, L.L.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

28.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

30.

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

Thomas, Dylan

31.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Forbes, B. C.

39.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

40.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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