Motivational Quotes

Business

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Basinger, Kim

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Leavitt, Theodore

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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

Knudsen, William

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Revson, Charles

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Galvin, Robert

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Malek, Fred

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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.

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Cathcart, Jim

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

42.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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.

47.

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.

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord