Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hawken, Paul

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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

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

10.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

11.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Hook, Harold

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

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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 poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Walton, Sam

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

Proverb, German

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Dickens, Charles