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

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

Dane, Frank

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.

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

Proverb

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

Buffett, Warren

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Walton, Sam

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

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Ovid

10.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

11.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

12.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

14.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

George Ade

17.

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

Forbes, B. C.

18.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

19.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

20.

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

21.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

22.

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

23.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

24.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

25.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

26.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Ogilvy, David

28.

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

Iacocca, Lee

30.

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

31.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

32.

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

Tara Hunt

33.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

34.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

35.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

36.

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 your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

38.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

41.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

42.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

46.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

47.

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

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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

49.

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

50.

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