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

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, American

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

17.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

George Ade

21.

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

Adolt, H. V.

22.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

23.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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

25.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

29.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Jacobs, Randall

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Manzi, Jim

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Field, Marshall

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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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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

40.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Tara Hunt

48.

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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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