Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Leavitt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Business

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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

Ovid

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

Adolt, H. V.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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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

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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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

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

Tara Hunt

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita