Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Bond, Alan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Walton, Sam

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Bean, L.L.

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Patterson, John H.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mitchell Caplan

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Hawken, Paul

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Ovid

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Warren Buffett

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.