Motivational Quotes

Business

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

- Kiam, Victor

Best Quotes about Business

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

11.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

14.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

15.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Warren Buffett

20.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

22.

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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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

24.

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

25.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

26.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Morley, John

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

30.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

32.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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

39.

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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

44.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Dickens, Charles

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