Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ford, Henry

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

Jacobs, Randall

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

11.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

12.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

13.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

14.

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

15.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

16.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

17.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

18.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

19.

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.

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Rena, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Manzi, Jim

28.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

29.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

30.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

31.

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

Blair, Tony

32.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

33.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

34.

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

Buffett, Warren

35.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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

37.

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

38.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

40.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

41.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

42.

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

David Letterman

43.

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

Dane, Frank

44.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

45.

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

46.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

48.

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

Revson, Charles

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.