Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

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

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Warren Buffett

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

21.

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

Bean, L.L.

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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

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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

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Galvin, Robert

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.