Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Manzi, Jim

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

10.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

11.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

12.

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

Cathcart, Jim

13.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

14.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

15.

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

16.

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

Ford, Henry

17.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

18.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

19.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

20.

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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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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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

23.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

24.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

25.

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

Tara Hunt

26.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

27.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

28.

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

Proverb

29.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

32.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

37.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

38.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

39.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

40.

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

Ford, Henry

41.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

42.

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

Aldus Manutius

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

44.

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

45.

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

Dickens, Charles

46.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

50.

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