Motivational Quotes

Business

I buy when other people are selling.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Riorio

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

Welch, John

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

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

George Ade

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

10.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

11.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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

13.

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

Malek, Fred

14.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

15.

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

Aldus Manutius

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

17.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

18.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

Oscar Wilde

21.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

22.

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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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

24.

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

25.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

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

Ford, Henry

27.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

30.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

32.

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

33.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

34.

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

35.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

36.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

38.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

39.

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

Bean, L.L.

40.

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

42.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Kiam, Victor

44.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

45.

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

David Letterman

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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.

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan