Motivational Quotes

Business

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

- Herzen, Alexander

Best Quotes about Business

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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 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 business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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.

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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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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

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Field, Marshall

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

29.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Branson, Richard

40.

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

41.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Proverb, German

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter