Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Riklis, Meshulam

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

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

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Brown, Derby

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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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Galvin, Robert

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Aldus Manutius

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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

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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

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Dickens, Charles

33.

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 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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Branson, Richard