Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dahlberg, Edward

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

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

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

Malek, Fred

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

10.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

11.

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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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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Bean, L.L.

17.

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

Ogilvy, David

18.

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

Tara Hunt

19.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

20.

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

Branson, Richard

21.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

22.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

26.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

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

33.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

34.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

35.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Bond, Alan

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

39.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

41.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

42.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

43.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

45.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank