Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Cardenas, Ruben

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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.

12.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

18.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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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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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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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

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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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

30.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

36.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Riorio

40.

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

Bean, L.L.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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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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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

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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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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

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An