Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Galvin, Robert

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.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

15.

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

16.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

17.

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

George Ade

18.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

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

Thomas, Dylan

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

23.

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

Collins, Nathan

24.

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

25.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

26.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

27.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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

30.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

31.

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

John Cleese

32.

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

33.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

34.

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

Brown, Derby

35.

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

Basinger, Kim

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

40.

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

41.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

42.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

43.

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

Wang, An

44.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

46.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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

48.

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

Proverb

49.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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