Motivational Quotes

Business

Every business is built on friendship.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Business

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

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Iacocca, Lee

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Aldus Manutius

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Warren Buffett

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Revson, Charles