Motivational Quotes

Business

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ford, Henry

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

Hawken, Paul

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Walton, Sam

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.

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

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

10.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

11.

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

12.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

15.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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

17.

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

Morley, John

18.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

19.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

20.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

21.

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

22.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

23.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

24.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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.

27.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

28.

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

29.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

30.

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

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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.

34.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

35.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

36.

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

37.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

38.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

39.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

40.

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

41.

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

Jacobs, Randall

42.

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

Manzi, Jim

43.

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

Bond, Alan

44.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

45.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

46.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

47.

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

Ovid

48.

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