Motivational Quotes

Business

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Business

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

Tara Hunt

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Warren Buffett

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

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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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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

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Branson, Richard

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Bean, L.L.

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Little, Royal

41.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

George Ade

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.