Motivational Quotes

Business

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

- Frand, Erwin

Best Quotes about Business

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Bean, L.L.

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

George Ade

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

10.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

11.

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

12.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

13.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

16.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

17.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

19.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

22.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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 compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

27.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

28.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

29.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

30.

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

31.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

33.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

34.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

35.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

36.

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

Bamford, Joe

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

40.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

41.

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

42.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

43.

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

Ogilvy, David

44.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

45.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

46.

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

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

Jurgen Schrempp

49.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius