Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

George Ade

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

Hook, Harold

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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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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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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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

David Letterman

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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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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bond, Alan

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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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

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Warren Buffett

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Revson, Charles

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.