Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

- Beaverbrook, Lord

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

10.

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

11.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

12.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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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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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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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.

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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

18.

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

19.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

20.

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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

23.

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

David Letterman

24.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

25.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Iacocca, Lee

30.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

32.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

33.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

34.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

35.

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

Morley, John

36.

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

Patterson, John H.

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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

40.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Galvin, Robert

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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

46.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

47.

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

Basinger, Kim

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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