Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ogilvy, David

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Forbes, B. C.

10.

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

Basinger, Kim

11.

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

Riorio

12.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Bean, L.L.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

22.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Olsen, Kenneth

24.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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.

29.

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

30.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

31.

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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

33.

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

34.

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

Revson, Charles

35.

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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

38.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

39.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

40.

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

43.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

44.

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

45.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

48.

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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur