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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

David Letterman

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.

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.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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

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

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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

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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

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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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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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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

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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.

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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.

Ford, Henry

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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 can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Walton, Sam

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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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