Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

John Cleese

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Patterson, John H.

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Jacobs, Randall

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

George Ade

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Ovid

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

Revson, Charles

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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