Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wang, An

Best Quotes about Business

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Morley, John

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Woolworth, F. W.

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

13.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Revson, Charles

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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'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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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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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

35.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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

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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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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

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

Ogilvy, David

43.

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan