Motivational Quotes

Business

Get the best people and train them well.

- Merrill, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Bean, L.L.

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

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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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

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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

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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