Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Leavitt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Business

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cathcart, Jim

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

12.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

13.

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

14.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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.

16.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

17.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

18.

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

Aldus Manutius

19.

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

Bond, Alan

20.

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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

23.

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

George Ade

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

26.

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

27.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Forbes, B. C.

30.

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

31.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

34.

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

Bean, L.L.

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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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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

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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

47.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

48.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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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