Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Business

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Forbes, B. C.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Tara Hunt

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Bond, Alan

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Armour, P. D.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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.

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

Basinger, Kim

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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.

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Field, Marshall

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.