Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Business

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Blair, Tony

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Hawken, Paul

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Branson, Richard

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Dickens, Charles

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Morley, John

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Proverb, American

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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

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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 morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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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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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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

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Location, location, location.