Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Riorio

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Brown, Derby

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

Geneen, Harold S.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

10.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

11.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kiam, Victor

19.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

20.

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

Field, Marshall

21.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

22.

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

Armour, P. D.

23.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

24.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

25.

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

26.

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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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 five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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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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

31.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

32.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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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.

40.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

42.

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.

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

George Ade

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

Walton, Sam

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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

48.

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

Proverb

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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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul