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

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

Little, Royal

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Ogilvy, David

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

10.

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

Cathcart, Jim

11.

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.

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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.

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

Warren Buffett

14.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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

18.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

19.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

20.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

21.

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

Morley, John

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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

23.

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

Ovid

24.

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

26.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

27.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

28.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

30.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Thomas, Dylan

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Aldus Manutius

36.

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

Proverb

37.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

38.

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

Ogilvy, David

39.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

40.

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

Grove, Andrew

41.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

42.

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

George Ade

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