Motivational Quotes

Business

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell

Best Quotes about Business

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

David Letterman

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Wang, An

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

Proverb, German

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

Riklis, Meshulam

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

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

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Proverb, American

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

Forbes, B. C.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Basinger, Kim

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

49.

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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.