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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Bean, L.L.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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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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

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ford, Henry

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Ogilvy, David

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Warren Buffett

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Field, Marshall

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Brown, Derby

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Blair, Tony

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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.