Motivational Quotes

Business

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

- Nevill, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Business

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Leavitt, Theodore

19.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

35.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

39.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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