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

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.

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

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

10.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Grove, Andrew

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

16.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

17.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

21.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

23.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

24.

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

Proverb, German

25.

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

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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

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

Proverb

28.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Forbes, B. C.

31.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

David Letterman

34.

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

John Cleese

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

39.

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

Revson, Charles

40.

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

Ogilvy, David

41.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

42.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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