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

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

Dickens, Charles

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Leavitt, Theodore

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Proverb, American

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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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Aldus Manutius

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.