Motivational Quotes

Business

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

- Rena, Peter

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

11.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

12.

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

13.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

14.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

16.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

18.

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

19.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

20.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

21.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

22.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

23.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

24.

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

25.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

26.

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

Iacocca, Lee

27.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

Little, Royal

29.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

30.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

31.

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

32.

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

Hook, Harold

33.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

34.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

35.

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

Walton, Sam

36.

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

Iacocca, Lee

37.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Proverb, German

40.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

41.

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

42.

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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Geneen, Harold S.

45.

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

Oscar Wilde

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

47.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.