Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Patterson, John H.

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Riorio

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

21.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Revson, Charles

28.

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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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

30.

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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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

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

Proverb, American

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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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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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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Collins, Nathan

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

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

Brown, Derby