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

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

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.

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

Galvin, Robert

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Knudsen, William

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Morley, John

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

Walton, Sam

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

Blair, Tony

11.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

40.

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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

46.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

47.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles