Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Revson, Charles

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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Proverb

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

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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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