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

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Warren Buffett

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.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Malek, Fred

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morley, John

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Ade

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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Iacocca, Lee

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