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

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

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Cardenas, Ruben

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

11.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Ford, Henry

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

24.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

25.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

30.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

31.

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

32.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

34.

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

Bond, Alan

35.

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

40.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

41.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

42.

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.

43.

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

Morley, John

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

George Ade

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

46.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

47.

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

Proverb, German

48.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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