Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

15.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Revson, Charles

19.

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

20.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

21.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

22.

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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

24.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

25.

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

Bean, L.L.

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

27.

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

Knudsen, William

28.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

29.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Iacocca, Lee

35.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Jacobs, Randall

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

39.

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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

42.

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

Warren Buffett

43.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

44.

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

Hook, Harold

45.

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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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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

49.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, B. C.