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

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

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

Aldus Manutius

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

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

Knudsen, William

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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.

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

Morley, John

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

Proverb, German

10.

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

11.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

14.

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

Warren Buffett

15.

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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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.

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Watson, Thomas J.

21.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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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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

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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 ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

30.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

34.

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

Blair, Tony

35.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Iacocca, Lee

41.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.