Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Woolworth, F. W.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Riklis, Meshulam

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

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

Ogilvy, David

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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.

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

10.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

11.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

12.

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

13.

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

Armour, P. D.

14.

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

Perot, H. Ross

15.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

16.

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

17.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

18.

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

Jacobs, Randall

19.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

21.

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

Tara Hunt

22.

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

George Ade

23.

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.

24.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

25.

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.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

27.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

28.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

29.

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

30.

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

Ogilvy, David

31.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

32.

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

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Hawken, Paul

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.