Motivational Quotes

Business

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

- Hawken, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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.

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Tara Hunt

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

Ford, Henry

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Wang, An

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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