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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Warren Buffett

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.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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 simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

Mcgovern, William

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

Walton, Sam

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Kiam, Victor

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Business is a combination of war and sport.