Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Galvin, Robert

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Ogilvy, David

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oscar Wilde

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

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

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

Proverb, German

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Hook, Harold

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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 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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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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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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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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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard