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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

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.

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Tara Hunt

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

13.

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

George Ade

14.

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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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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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

17.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

18.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

19.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

22.

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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Jacobs, Randall

25.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

30.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

31.

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

32.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

33.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

34.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

35.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

36.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

37.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

38.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

39.

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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

42.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

45.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Cathcart, Jim

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