Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ogilvy, David

Best Quotes about Business

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Wilson, Charles E.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Collins, Nathan

10.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

11.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Kiam, Victor

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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 like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Walton, Sam

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Morley, John

21.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

22.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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

Malek, Fred

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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

28.

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

Forbes, B. C.

29.

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

30.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

31.

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

32.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

33.

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

Little, Royal

34.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

35.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

36.

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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

38.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

42.

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

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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

45.

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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

47.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott