Motivational Quotes

Business

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

- Mcgovern, William

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Proverb

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

David Letterman

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

Proverb, German

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Wang, An

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cathcart, Jim

39.

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

Blair, Tony

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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

41.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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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

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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 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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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