Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about 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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Knudsen, William

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

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

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Tara Hunt

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ogilvy, David

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bond, Alan

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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

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

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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.