Motivational Quotes

Business

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Proverb

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

Jacobs, Randall

12.

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.

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

16.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

17.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

19.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Manzi, Jim

22.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

23.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

24.

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

25.

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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

27.

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

Ford, Henry

28.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

30.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

31.

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

32.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

33.

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

Dane, Frank

34.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

35.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

36.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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.

39.

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

Malek, Fred

40.

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

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

42.

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

Ford, Henry

43.

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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You can't run a business without taking risks.