Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Business

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

David Letterman

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Dane, Frank

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

10.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

12.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

13.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

14.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Manzi, Jim

23.

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

Mitchell Caplan

25.

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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

28.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

30.

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

Field, Marshall

34.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

35.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

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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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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

43.

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

Warren Buffett

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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 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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.