Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Leavitt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ford, Henry

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

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

Knudsen, William

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Rena, Peter

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

Shakespeare, William

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Morley, John

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

30.

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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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

47.

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

Ovid

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John