Motivational Quotes

Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

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

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.

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

Jacobs, Randall

10.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

11.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

12.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

13.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

14.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

17.

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

Malek, Fred

18.

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

Ogilvy, David

19.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

20.

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

21.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Wilde, Oscar

23.

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

24.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

25.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

26.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

27.

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

Wang, An

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

35.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

36.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

37.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

38.

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

39.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

40.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

43.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

44.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

47.

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.

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

49.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.