Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Business

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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.

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

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Proverb, American

10.

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

Walton, Sam

11.

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

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Morley, John

14.

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

Branson, Richard

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

18.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

20.

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

Wang, An

21.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Patterson, John H.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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 balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

32.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

41.

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

Ovid

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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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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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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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.