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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Patterson, John H.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Basinger, Kim

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

10.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

11.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

13.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

18.

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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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

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

Welch, John

21.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

25.

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

Revson, Charles

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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.

29.

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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Hawken, Paul

36.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Field, Marshall

39.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

40.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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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

44.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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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.

47.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

50.

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