Motivational Quotes

Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Business

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 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.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Iacocca, Lee

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Morley, John

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Bond, Alan

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

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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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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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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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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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