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

Jurgen Schrempp

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Walton, Sam

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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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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

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Perot, H. Ross

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Field, Marshall

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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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