Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Bond, Alan

10.

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

11.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

13.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

14.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

15.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

16.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

17.

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

18.

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

Aldus Manutius

19.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

20.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

21.

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

22.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

23.

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

Ford, Henry

24.

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

25.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

28.

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

Riorio

29.

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

Iacocca, Lee

30.

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.

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Wang, An

33.

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

Warren Buffett

34.

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

35.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

36.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

37.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.