Motivational Quotes

Business

Every business is built on friendship.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Business

A hard thing about business is minding your own

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Ford, Henry

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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

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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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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Warren Buffett

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry