#Business Quotes

“Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,And think perchance they'll sell; if not,The lustre of the better yet to showShall show the better.”

“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”

“In finance everything that is agreeable is unsoundand everything that is sound is disagreeable.”

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“Never make a promise without a plan.”

“The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.”

“I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.”

“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.”

“If you mean to profit, learn to please.”

“Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Realistically, the more problems we have and the larger they are, the greater our value to our employer.”

“Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.”

“It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.”

“You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business.”

“See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.”

“It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.”

“Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for”

“When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.”

“Each close you use should be an educational process by which you are able to raise the value in the prospect's mind.”

“When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.”

“If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.”

“Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.”

“Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.”

“I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.”

“People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.”

“The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“Keep your thinking right and your business will be right.”

“I would model well-being by presenting myself as a high-energy person who loves what I am doing and who is thrilled to be able to offer books, tapes, and products designed to make people feel good. I would explain that they are in a store filled with this kind of energy and that creating such a space is exactly why I got into the business in the first place. If you want to feel good, then my store is the place you should visit on a regular basis. I would stay very informed about what's out there and make sure I carry many things with very high energy.”

“Stop selling. Start helping.”

“Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.”

“When you do more than you're paid for eventually you will get paid for more than you do. This is a basic truth that also applies to Business, Sales or anything you do. Whatever your endeavor always provide more service than you get paid for and you will develop a reputation that will separate you from the rest.”

“Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.”

“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”

“For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .”

“The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'”

“When management and labor (employer and employee) both understand they are all on the same side, then each will prosper more.”

“When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In fact, if U and I were not in business, it would not be business. Furthermore, we discover that U comes before I in business and the I is silent-it is to be seen, not heard. Also, the U in business has the sound of I, which indicates it is an amalgamation of the interests of U and I. When they are properly amalgamated, business becomes harmonious, profitable, and pleasant.”

“Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.”

“The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.”

“When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.”

“You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.”

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

“There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.”

“I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.”

“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.”

“I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.”

“A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.”

“You can take any line of business and skill and the ones who do it the best are the ones who get the most money for it.”

“If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.”

“Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.”

“If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.”