Motivational Quotes

Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

- Drexler, Millard

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Coke, Sir Edward

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Walton, Sam

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

Brown, Derby

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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

11.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Armour, P. D.

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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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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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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Field, Marshall

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