Motivational Quotes

Business

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

- Cardenas, Ruben

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Revson, Charles

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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.