Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cathcart, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

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

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

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Ford, Henry

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

John Cleese

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

Tara Hunt

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Galvin, Robert

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Field, Marshall

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Malek, Fred

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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

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

Jacobs, Randall

31.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Bond, Alan

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

35.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

44.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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