Motivational Quotes

Business

Every business is built on friendship.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Business

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bean, L.L.

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

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

Riorio

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

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

Warren Buffett

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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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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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 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

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Proverb, German

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

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

Ovid

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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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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Morley, John

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

George Ade

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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