Motivational Quotes

Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

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

Field, Marshall

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

11.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

12.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

13.

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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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.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Jurgen Schrempp

23.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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

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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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

30.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

38.

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.

39.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

40.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

50.

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