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

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Rena, Peter

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Revson, Charles

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Morley, John

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Field, Marshall

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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