Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

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

Walton, Sam

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Ovid

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

10.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

11.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

12.

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

Little, Royal

13.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

14.

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

15.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

16.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

17.

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

18.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

19.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

20.

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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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

24.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

25.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

26.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

27.

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

28.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

30.

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

31.

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

Aldus Manutius

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

33.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

34.

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

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

Hawken, Paul

36.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

39.

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

Wang, An

40.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

41.

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

42.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

43.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

44.

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

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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.