Motivational Quotes

Business

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

- Olsen, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Collins, Nathan

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Ogilvy, David

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

12.

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

Bean, L.L.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

14.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

16.

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

17.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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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

20.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

21.

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

22.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Ford, Henry

25.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

26.

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

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

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

Walton, Sam

31.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

32.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

34.

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

Patterson, John H.

35.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

36.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

38.

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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

40.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

41.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

42.

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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

46.

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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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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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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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

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)