Motivational Quotes

Business

Get the best people and train them well.

- Merrill, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

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

Malek, Fred

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Riorio

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

10.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

11.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

12.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

13.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

17.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

18.

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

19.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

20.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

21.

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

Perot, H. Ross

22.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

24.

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

25.

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

Ogilvy, David

28.

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

29.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Brown, Derby

31.

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

Bean, L.L.

32.

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

Forbes, B. C.

33.

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

34.

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

Iacocca, Lee

35.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

36.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

37.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

40.

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

41.

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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

43.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

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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

46.

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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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

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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