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

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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.

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Field, Marshall

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

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

10.

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

11.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

12.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

13.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

14.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

22.

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

Malek, Fred

23.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

24.

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

25.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

27.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

28.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

29.

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

Barzan, Gerald

30.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

31.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

32.

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

Armour, P. D.

33.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

34.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

38.

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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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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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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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.

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

Blair, Tony

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

46.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

48.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew