Motivational Quotes

Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

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.

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

Revson, Charles

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Bean, L.L.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, 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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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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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.

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

Rena, Peter

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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A hard thing about business is minding your own