Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

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

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Kiam, Victor

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

10.

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

Ogilvy, David

11.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Proverb

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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

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

Proverb, American

18.

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

Knudsen, William

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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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

Tara Hunt

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Revson, Charles

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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

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Ford, Henry

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.