Motivational Quotes

Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Jacobs, Randall

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

10.

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

11.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

17.

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

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

19.

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

Morley, John

20.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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

22.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

25.

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

Little, Royal

27.

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

28.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

29.

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

Walton, Sam

30.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

31.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

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

Patterson, John H.

34.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

35.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

36.

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

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

Brown, Derby

38.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

39.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

40.

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

Bond, Alan

41.

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

42.

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

43.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Ford, Henry