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

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

John Cleese

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

10.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

11.

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

Malek, Fred

12.

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

Bean, L.L.

13.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

14.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

15.

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

Warren Buffett

16.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

19.

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

Forbes, B. C.

20.

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

21.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

24.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

25.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

28.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

29.

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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

33.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

35.

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

Bond, Alan

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

39.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

40.

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

41.

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

Barzan, Gerald

42.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

43.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

44.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Ovid

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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

49.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

50.

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