Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

George Ade

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Dickens, Charles

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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 very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Forbes, B. C.

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