Motivational Quotes

Business

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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

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

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Beene, Geoffrey

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Riorio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ogilvy, David

10.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

12.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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

14.

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

Bond, Alan

15.

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

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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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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

18.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

19.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

20.

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

Branson, Richard

21.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

22.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Field, Marshall

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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

27.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

29.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

30.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

Morley, John

32.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

33.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

34.

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

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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

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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.

37.

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

40.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

43.

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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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

45.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

47.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

48.

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

Dickens, Charles

49.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross