Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mophatlane, Isaac

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Bean, L.L.

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

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

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

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

Riorio

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

Brown, Derby

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Dickens, Charles

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Adolt, H. V.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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.

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

Dane, Frank

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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