Motivational Quotes

Business

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Business

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

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Ford, Henry

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 not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Bond, Alan

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Malek, Fred

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Riorio

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

Morley, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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