Motivational Quotes

Business

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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.

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.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Malek, Fred

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

Iacocca, Lee

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Warren Buffett

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Proverb, German

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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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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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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.