Motivational Quotes

Business

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

- Khrushchev, Nikita

Best Quotes about Business

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.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Barzan, Gerald

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

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

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

10.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

12.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

15.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

16.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

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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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Watson, Thomas J.

24.

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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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.

26.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Morley, John

28.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

29.

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

30.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

31.

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

Walton, Sam

32.

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

Revson, Charles

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

39.

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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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

42.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

43.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

44.

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

George Ade

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Welch, John

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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