Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Proverb, German

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

Ogilvy, David

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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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Field, Marshall

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

32.

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

33.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Galvin, Robert

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Walton, Sam

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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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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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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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