Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Jacobs, Randall

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

10.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

11.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

12.

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

Blair, Tony

13.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

14.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

15.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

16.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

17.

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

Buffett, Warren

18.

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

19.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

20.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

21.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

22.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

24.

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

25.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

27.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

28.

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

Knudsen, William

29.

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

30.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

31.

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

32.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

35.

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

36.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

37.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

38.

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

39.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

40.

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

41.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

45.

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

George Ade

46.

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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander