Motivational Quotes

Business

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

- Kashoggi, Adnan

Best Quotes about Business

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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

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

10.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

11.

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

Hawken, Paul

12.

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

Revson, Charles

13.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

14.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

15.

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

Ogilvy, David

16.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

17.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

19.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

20.

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

21.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

22.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

23.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

24.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

25.

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

Ford, Henry

26.

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.

27.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

28.

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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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

30.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

31.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

32.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Blair, Tony

37.

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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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.

39.

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

Malek, Fred

40.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

44.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

45.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

46.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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 I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

49.

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

Basinger, Kim

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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