Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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.

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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.

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

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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.

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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