Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

George Ade

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Riorio

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

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Bean, L.L.

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

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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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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 five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Proverb

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

Woolworth, F. W.

41.

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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.