Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Warren Buffett

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

11.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

12.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

13.

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

Cathcart, Jim

14.

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

15.

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

16.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Scrutton, T. L.

18.

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

21.

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

Proverb, American

22.

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

Proverb, German

23.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

24.

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

25.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

26.

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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

28.

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

29.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

30.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

32.

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

John Cleese

33.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

34.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

40.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

41.

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.

42.

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

Ogilvy, David

43.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

44.

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

45.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Geneen, Harold S.