Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

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

Proverb, German

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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

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Malek, Fred

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

Dickens, Charles

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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

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

Branson, Richard

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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

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.