Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cathcart, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Oscar Wilde

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

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.

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

17.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

18.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

19.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

20.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

21.

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

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

29.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

30.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

31.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

32.

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

Iacocca, Lee

33.

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

Rena, Peter

34.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

37.

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.

38.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

42.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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.

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

45.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

46.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

47.

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

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