Motivational Quotes

Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Business

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Brown, Derby

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

Thomas, Dylan

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Kiam, Victor

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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.

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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

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

Wang, An

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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

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ogilvy, David

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Branson, Richard

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Adolt, H. V.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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.

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, American

42.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Warren Buffett

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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