Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cathcart, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

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

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Collins, Nathan

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Proverb

11.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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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

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

George Ade

17.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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.

24.

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

25.

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

Iacocca, Lee

26.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

27.

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

28.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

29.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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

Proverb, American

31.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

Malek, Fred

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Walton, Sam

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Dumas, Alexandre