Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, German

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

George Ade

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

Welch, John

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

11.

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

12.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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 business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

19.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb

28.

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, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

30.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

32.

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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

40.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, 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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You can't run a business without taking risks.