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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

10.

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

Little, Royal

11.

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

Ford, Henry

12.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

13.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

14.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

16.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

17.

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

Proverb

18.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

19.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

21.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

22.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

23.

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

Cathcart, Jim

24.

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

Revson, Charles

25.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

26.

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

27.

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

Galvin, Robert

28.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

29.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

30.

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

Bean, L.L.

31.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

32.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

33.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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.

35.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

36.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

37.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

38.

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

Hawken, Paul

39.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

40.

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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Walton, Sam

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.