Motivational Quotes

Business

The business of the country is business.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Business

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

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

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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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

11.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Iacocca, Lee

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

18.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

19.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

20.

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

31.

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

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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

33.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Walton, Sam

35.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Little, Royal

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

42.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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