Motivational Quotes

Business

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, German

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

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

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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.

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.

10.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

11.

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

Revson, Charles

12.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

13.

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

Hawken, Paul

15.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

22.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

23.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

24.

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

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

26.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

27.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

28.

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

29.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

30.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

31.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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.

39.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

40.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

41.

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

42.

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

43.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

44.

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

Little, Royal

45.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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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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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen