Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Riorio

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

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Morley, John

11.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

12.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

15.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

16.

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

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

Proverb, German

18.

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

20.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

21.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

22.

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

David Letterman

23.

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

Kiam, Victor

24.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

25.

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

Dane, Frank

26.

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

27.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

28.

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

Revson, Charles

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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

30.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

31.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

32.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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.

35.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

36.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

37.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

38.

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

39.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Ogilvy, David

43.

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

44.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

45.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

46.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

John Cleese