Motivational Quotes

Business

Few great men could pass personal.

- Goodman, Paul

Best Quotes about Business

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.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

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

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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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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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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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

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

Armour, P. D.

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

Proverb, German

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Field, Marshall

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb, American

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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