Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

George Ade

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Riorio

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Hawken, Paul

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Bean, L.L.

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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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William