Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Proverb, German

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Basinger, Kim

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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

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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

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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