Motivational Quotes

Business

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

- Jacobs, Randall

Best Quotes about Business

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

George Ade

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

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

10.

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

Revson, Charles

11.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

12.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

13.

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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

22.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

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

Walton, Sam

25.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

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

Iacocca, Lee

29.

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

30.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

32.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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.

40.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Aldus Manutius

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