Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riorio

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hawken, Paul

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

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

Revson, Charles

10.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

11.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

12.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

13.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

14.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

15.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

17.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

18.

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

David Letterman

19.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Morley, John

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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 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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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

40.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

43.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.