Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Morley, John

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Armour, P. D.

10.

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

11.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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

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

George Ade

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

32.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

34.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Branson, Richard

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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