Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Adolt, H. V.

Best Quotes about Business

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Forbes, B. C.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

10.

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

11.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

12.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

13.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

14.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

15.

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

16.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

17.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

18.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

19.

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

20.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

24.

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

Iacocca, Lee

25.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

27.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

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

29.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

30.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

31.

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.

32.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

33.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

34.

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

George Ade

35.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

36.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Malek, Fred

40.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

41.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

42.

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

43.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

46.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Olsen, Kenneth

48.

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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita