Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

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

Rena, Peter

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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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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bond, Alan

31.

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

Walton, Sam

32.

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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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

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

Cathcart, Jim

39.

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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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