Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Leavitt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

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

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

Proverb

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

10.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

George Ade

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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 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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

30.

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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

32.

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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Manzi, Jim

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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

39.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall