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

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Little, Royal

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Hawken, Paul

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Buffett, Warren

28.

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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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.

31.

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

Hook, Harold

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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 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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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