Motivational Quotes

Business

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

- Morley, John

Best Quotes about Business

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

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Bean, L.L.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Patterson, John H.

19.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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

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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Basinger, Kim

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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 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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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.