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

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

Ovid

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

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

Riorio

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

10.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

11.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

12.

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

Revson, Charles

13.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

14.

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

Morley, John

15.

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.

16.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

17.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

18.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

19.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

20.

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

Forbes, B. C.

21.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

22.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

23.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

24.

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

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

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

28.

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

Ford, Henry

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

31.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

32.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Warren Buffett

34.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

35.

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.

36.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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.

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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

40.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

41.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

44.

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

Dane, Frank

45.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

46.

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

47.

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

Bean, L.L.

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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

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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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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