Motivational Quotes

Business

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

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

Mitchell Caplan

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Bond, Alan

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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

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

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bean, L.L.

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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 secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Proverb

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Wilson, Charles 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.

42.

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

Branson, Richard

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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