Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Forbes, B. C.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Morley, John

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Dane, Frank

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Galvin, Robert

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb

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

John Cleese