Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Perot, H. Ross

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Ford, Henry

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Bond, Alan

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

21.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

22.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ogilvy, David

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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

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Little, Royal

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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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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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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Galvin, Robert

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