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

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.

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

Basinger, Kim

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Forbes, B. C.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

George Ade

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

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

David Letterman

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Field, Marshall

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Armour, P. D.

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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's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Proverb

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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

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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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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