Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Warren Buffett

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

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.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Morley, John

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Mcnealy, Scott

10.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

11.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

12.

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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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

14.

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

Galvin, Robert

15.

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

George Ade

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

17.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

18.

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

19.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

20.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

21.

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

22.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

23.

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

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

Brown, Derby

25.

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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

28.

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

Walton, Sam

29.

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

Riorio

30.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

31.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

32.

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

Perot, H. Ross

33.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Hawken, Paul

35.

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

Ovid

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

40.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

44.

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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.