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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Hawken, Paul

11.

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

Wang, An

12.

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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

David Letterman

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

Iacocca, Lee

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Morley, John

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Proverb, German

40.

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Walton, Sam

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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

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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