Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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.

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

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

10.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

12.

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

David Letterman

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bond, Alan

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

20.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

21.

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

Little, Royal

22.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

28.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

29.

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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Hook, Harold

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

40.

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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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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

45.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

46.

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

Malek, Fred

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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