Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Khrushchev, Nikita

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bond, Alan

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

Shakespeare, William

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

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

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

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

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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

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Warren Buffett

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Malek, Fred

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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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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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Field, Marshall

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross