Motivational Quotes

Business

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

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.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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.

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Revson, Charles

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Morley, John

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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

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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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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

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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

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

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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