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

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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.

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

Blair, Tony

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

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

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

11.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

14.

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

15.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

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

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

18.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

21.

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

Ogilvy, David

22.

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

Proverb, American

23.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

25.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

29.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

30.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

31.

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

32.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

33.

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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Thomas, Dylan

37.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

39.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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