Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Revson, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Forbes, B. C.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Warren Buffett

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Galvin, Robert

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Riorio

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

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Basinger, Kim