Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Welch, John

Best Quotes about Business

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

Aldus Manutius

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Malek, Fred

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

Churchill, Winston

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Walton, Sam

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo