MBAnerd's Collection Of Quotes On Work & Money

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's Collection Of Quotes On Work & Money

Henry Ford:
	It is not the employer who pays wages – he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

Henry Ford:
	A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Henry Ford:
	There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Martin Luther King Jr:
	If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say; here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Harry S Truman:
	It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.

Theodore Roosevelt:
	The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

John Wooden:
	Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

W Edwards Deming:
	Answer these simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

Indira Gahdhi:
	There are two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. Be in the first group; there is less competition.

Price Pritchett:
	The whole world is shifting towards greater equality of opportunity. Rewards will be based on each person’s productive capacity. On performance as individuals. We’re seeking a shift from entitlement to earning. From blame and excuses to personal accountability.

Voltaire:
	Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

Elbert Hubbard:
	One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Martin Luther King Jr:
	Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead and the unborn could do it no better.

Price Pritchett:
	Part of our job is to make our products and service obsolete … before a competitor does. So, give yourself instructions to get creative.

Alistair Cooke:
	A professional is someone who can do the best work when he doesn’t feel like it.

James Ling:
	Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

Louis E Boone:
	Some people work just hard enough to not get fired, and some companies pay just enough that they won’t quit.

General Colin Powell:
	I’m a problem solver.

Mark Oman:
	Only a mediocre person is always at their best.

Charlotte Beers:
	Anyone in sales is always in a servant position.

J Ogden Armour:
	Business is full of men who would be at the top, if they had only learned to think their thoughts to a conclusion. They know 2 + 2 makes 4 … they never stop to think 4 of what?

Malcolm Forbes:
	It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

Richard Thieme:
	In a knowledge economy information is capital, but wisdom is gold.

Malcolm Forbes:
	Too many people overvalue what they’re not and undervalue what they are.

Malcolm Forbes:
	There’s a big difference between cheap and reasonable.

Tom Brokaw:
	It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.

Warren Buffet:
	I plan to retire about 5 to 10 years after I die.

Theodore Roethke:
	What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Kelly Breslin:
	While repeat business is nice, you can’t grow a business on it. Once you stop promoting, it’s hard to get new customers.

Howard W Newton:
	People forget how fast you did a job – they remember how well you did it.

Alvin Toffler:
	The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write … but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Larry Stone:
	… our business is about people. And taking care of them. Our own … and our customers.

BC Forbes:
	Work done with little effort is likely to yield little sales.

Michael Krause:
	If you talk to your customers carefully and explain everything in language they understand, they tell their friends.

Robert Eaton:
	Downsizing is an unpleasant thing to do. Yet, it’s far less devastating than when the company doesn’t survive.

Samuel Johnson:
	Too many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

Leo Tolstoy:
	If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

Vince Lombardi:
	Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Jack Faris:
	Small business owners don’t start their own businesses for the sake of security; they start them for the sake of freedom.

Michael Levine:
	The only job security is to be more talented tomorrow than you are today.

Joan Helpern:
	When the Internet can reach out and touch you and hug you and kiss you and make you feel great about what you’re buying, we will no longer have to go to a particular marketplace to shop. For the moment we need both technology and the human touch.

Anonymous:
	In one day Samson slew 1,00 Philistines with the jaw bone of an ass. Every day 10 million sales are killed with the same weapon.

Sam Walton:
	There is only one boss. The customer.

Robert Lozier:
	If we give good service, we will keep the customer. Eventually we will figure out how to make money from him.

Barbara Sher:
	I’ve found the best source of solutions is other people.

JW Marriott Jr:
	If we treat our employees correctly, they’ll treat the customers right. And if the customers are treated right, they come back.

Peter Drucker:
	Companies are not in business to make items, but to make customers.

Sam Walton:
	Communicate everything to your associates. The more they know the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

Bruce Barton:
	An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops, where customers state their preference and determine which company and product shall be the leader today, and which shall lead tomorrow.

JC Penny:
	The customer is always right.

Jack West:
	Companies that give customers exactly what they expect keep 50% to 75% of those customers. Companies that exceed customers expectations have a retention rate in the high 80s to low 90s.

Marshall Field:
	Customers, when given a choice where they spend money, invariably go back to a place where they have been made to feel special.

David Ogilvy:
	When I write an advertisement I don’t want you to tell me that you find it creative. I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.

Robert McGarvey:
	Too many meetings are held just because they’re scheduled.

General George Patton:
	If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Richard S Sloma:
	People are a firm’s most important asset.

Chinese Proverb:
	To open a shop is easy. The difficult thing is to keep it open.

Albert Einstein:
	A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious belief is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein:
	The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

Plato:
	Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle.