Motivational Quotes

Business

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

- Lewis, E. St. Elmo

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Armour, P. D.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Ford, Henry

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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

Brown, Derby

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Warren Buffett

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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 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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

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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

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bean, L.L.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Iacocca, Lee