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

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Riorio

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Shakespeare, William

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Branson, Richard

14.

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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Hawken, Paul

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Revson, Charles

30.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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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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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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Seth Godin

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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