Motivational Quotes

Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Business

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

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Malek, Fred

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

Proverb, American

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 buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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.

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

Blair, Tony

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

18.

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

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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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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

22.

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.

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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

24.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

25.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Adolt, H. V.

28.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

31.

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

Dane, Frank

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Iacocca, Lee

36.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

37.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

42.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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