Motivational Quotes

Business

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Riorio

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Branson, Richard

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

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

14.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Kiam, Victor

17.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

18.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

19.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

20.

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

21.

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

Forbes, B. C.

22.

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 business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

24.

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

Patterson, John H.

25.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

27.

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

28.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

29.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

30.

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

Revson, Charles

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

33.

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

Adolt, H. V.

34.

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

Manzi, Jim

35.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

36.

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

37.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

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

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

42.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

43.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Oscar Wilde

45.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.