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

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Knudsen, William

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Field, Marshall

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Dane, Frank

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Ovid

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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