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

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

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Manzi, Jim

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.

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

Warren Buffett

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

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

10.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Wang, An

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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 very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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A dinner lubricates business.