Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Leavitt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Proverb, American

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

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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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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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

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Revson, Charles

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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

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Blair, Tony

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Ovid

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Proverb

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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