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

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

Shakespeare, William

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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

11.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

14.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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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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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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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Armour, P. D.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

28.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

30.

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

Forbes, B. C.

31.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

33.

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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

George Ade

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

38.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

39.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

40.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

41.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.