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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

10.

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

Ogilvy, David

11.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Grove, Andrew

13.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

14.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

15.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

16.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

17.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

18.

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.

19.

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

Malek, Fred

20.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

22.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

23.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

27.

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

Revson, Charles

28.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

29.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

30.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

31.

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

Field, Marshall

33.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

35.

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

Galvin, Robert

36.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

37.

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

Manzi, Jim

38.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

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

41.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

42.

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

Morley, John

43.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

44.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

45.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

46.

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

47.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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