Motivational Quotes

Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

John Cleese

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

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

10.

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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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Proverb

14.

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

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

16.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

19.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

20.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

21.

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

Malek, Fred

22.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

23.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

24.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

25.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

26.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

28.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

29.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

30.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

31.

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

32.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

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

34.

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

Bond, Alan

35.

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Field, Marshall

38.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Revson, Charles

40.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

41.

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

Adolt, H. V.

42.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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

47.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

49.

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

50.

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