Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Patterson, John H.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Field, Marshall

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Thomas, Dylan

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

22.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Branson, Richard

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Blair, Tony

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.