Motivational Quotes

Business

It's the economy, stupid.

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Business

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

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Dane, Frank

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Little, Royal

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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.