Motivational Quotes

Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

- Drucker, Peter F.

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

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hawken, Paul

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Field, Marshall

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

Mitchell Caplan

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Blair, Tony

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

Bond, Alan

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

Branson, Richard

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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

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

Warren Buffett

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Every business is built on friendship.