Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bean, L.L.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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.

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

Patterson, John H.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Ford, Henry

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

11.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

12.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

22.

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

Malek, Fred

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

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

Adolt, H. V.

30.

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

Armour, P. D.

31.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

32.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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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.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Dane, Frank

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Morley, John

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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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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

48.

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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre