Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

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

Blair, Tony

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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

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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

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

Armour, P. D.

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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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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.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

David Letterman

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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

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Branson, Richard

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