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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Proverb

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ford, Henry

11.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

12.

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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Ogilvy, David

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Riorio

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Walton, Sam

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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.

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

40.

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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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

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

Warren Buffett