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

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

Mitchell Caplan

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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 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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Branson, Richard

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Herzen, Alexander

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Proverb, German

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

Blair, Tony

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, American

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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Proverb

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Ford, Henry