Motivational Quotes

Business

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

- Coke, Sir Edward

Best Quotes about Business

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

10.

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

11.

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

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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.

18.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

24.

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

Revson, Charles

25.

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

Knudsen, William

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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

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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

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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.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

30.

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 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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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

33.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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

Oscar Wilde

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

39.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

41.

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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

43.

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

Hawken, Paul

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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.

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

Dane, Frank

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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.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Peters, Thomas J.