Motivational Quotes

Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Business

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Tara Hunt

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Hawken, Paul

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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

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

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Field, Marshall

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

36.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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