Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warren Buffett

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Aldus Manutius

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.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

11.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Hook, Harold

13.

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

Blair, Tony

14.

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

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

17.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

18.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

19.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

20.

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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

24.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

25.

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

26.

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

Knudsen, William

27.

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

28.

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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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

32.

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

33.

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

Iacocca, Lee

34.

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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

40.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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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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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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.