Motivational Quotes

Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

- Gilbey, Walter

Best Quotes about Business

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

Little, Royal

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Warren Buffett

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Hawken, Paul

10.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Dane, Frank

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Mitchell Caplan

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Proverb

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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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Armour, P. D.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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

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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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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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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