Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Cathcart, Jim

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wang, An

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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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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hawken, Paul

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Proverb

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Proverb, German

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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

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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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

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas