Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Riorio

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Ford, Henry

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

10.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

11.

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

Galvin, Robert

12.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

13.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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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

17.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

18.

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

Warren Buffett

19.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

20.

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

Walton, Sam

21.

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

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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.

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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

24.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

25.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Walton, Sam

28.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

29.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

30.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

34.

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

35.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

40.

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

Proverb, German

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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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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