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

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

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.

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

Tara Hunt

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Wang, An

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

Field, Marshall

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

Hawken, Paul

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

10.

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

11.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Warren Buffett

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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

20.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

21.

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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

23.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

24.

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

Barzan, Gerald

25.

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

Bond, Alan

26.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

31.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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.

33.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

34.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

39.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

40.

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

Oscar Wilde

41.

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

44.

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

Riorio

45.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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Every business is built on friendship.