Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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 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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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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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 can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ogilvy, David

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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