Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bean, L.L.

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

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

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

Mitchell Caplan

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

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

Morley, John

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Bond, Alan

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, 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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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