Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Bean, L.L.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

11.

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

13.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Warren Buffett

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

23.

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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Branson, Richard

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Ogilvy, David

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.