Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Leavitt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Business

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

Blair, Tony

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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 hard thing about business is minding your own

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Revson, Charles

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Dane, Frank

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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