Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Woolworth, F. W.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Jacobs, Randall

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

10.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

12.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Bean, L.L.

14.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

15.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

16.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Buffett, Warren

18.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

19.

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

Knudsen, William

22.

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.

23.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

26.

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

Ovid

27.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

28.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

32.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

33.

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

George Ade

34.

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

Kiam, Victor

35.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

36.

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

Malek, Fred

37.

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

Ogilvy, David

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

39.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

40.

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

Cathcart, Jim

41.

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

Forbes, B. C.

43.

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

Proverb, American

44.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

45.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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.

47.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

50.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick