Motivational Quotes

Business

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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 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

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

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Buffett, Warren

10.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

11.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

12.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

13.

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

Barzan, Gerald

14.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

15.

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.

16.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

17.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

18.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

19.

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

20.

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

Hawken, Paul

21.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

22.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

23.

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

Armour, P. D.

24.

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

25.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

26.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

27.

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

28.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

33.

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

34.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

38.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

39.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

40.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

41.

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

42.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

43.

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

44.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

45.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

46.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

47.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Woolworth, F. W.