Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dumas, Alexandre

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Thomas, Dylan

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Walton, Sam

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Oscar Wilde

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

David Letterman

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Bean, L.L.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Galvin, Robert

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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