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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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.

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Ovid

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Malek, Fred

22.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Hook, Harold

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Proverb, American

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

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

Kiam, Victor

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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

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Walton, Sam

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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