Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Kiam, Victor

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

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

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Peters, Thomas J.

32.

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

Little, Royal

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shakespeare, William

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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