Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Blair, Tony

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

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

15.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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.

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

Wang, An

18.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

19.

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

Field, Marshall

20.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

22.

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

23.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

25.

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

Walton, Sam

26.

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

27.

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

Ogilvy, David

28.

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.

29.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

30.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

31.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

32.

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

Tara Hunt

33.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

34.

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

Brown, Derby

35.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

36.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

37.

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

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

40.

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

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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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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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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.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

46.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

47.

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