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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Morley, John

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

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

Grove, Andrew

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

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Field, Marshall

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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

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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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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Ogilvy, David

22.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

David Letterman

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

Hawken, Paul

31.

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

Forbes, B. C.

33.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Brown, Derby

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

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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

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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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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Scrutton, T. L.