Motivational Quotes

Business

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

- Bristol, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Revson, Charles

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

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Malek, Fred

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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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 morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Manzi, Jim

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

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

Bond, Alan

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

48.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis