Motivational Quotes

Business

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

- Lewis, E. St. Elmo

Best Quotes about Business

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.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Woolworth, F. W.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

10.

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

Galvin, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

Barzan, Gerald

13.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

14.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Field, Marshall

17.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

19.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

20.

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

Walton, Sam

21.

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

Oscar Wilde

22.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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.

24.

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

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

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

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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

30.

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

31.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

33.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

34.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

35.

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

37.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

40.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

41.

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

42.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

43.

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

Forbes, B. C.

44.

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

45.

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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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

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

Ogilvy, David

48.

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

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

50.

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