Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Shakespeare, William

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Walton, Sam

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Morley, John

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

10.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

11.

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.

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Field, Marshall

13.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

15.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

16.

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

Proverb, German

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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

18.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

19.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

24.

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 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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

29.

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

Ogilvy, David

30.

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

Iacocca, Lee

31.

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

Ford, Henry

32.

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

Walton, Sam

33.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

34.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

41.

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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

43.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

45.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

48.

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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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