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 read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

David Letterman

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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

Malek, Fred

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

Ford, Henry

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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

Grove, Andrew

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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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

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Proverb, German

29.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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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

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Basinger, Kim

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Ogilvy, David