Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Hook, Harold

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 hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Shakespeare, William

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Blair, Tony

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Buffett, Warren

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Branson, Richard

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

Bond, Alan

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

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ford, Henry

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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Franklin, Benjamin

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Little, Royal

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren