Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Field, Marshall

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

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

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Malek, Fred

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

Patterson, John H.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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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.

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

George Ade

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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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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Dickens, Charles