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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

George Ade

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

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

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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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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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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

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

Revson, Charles

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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.

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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

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Bean, L.L.

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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

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Field, Marshall

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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.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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