Motivational Quotes

Business

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

- Riklis, Meshulam

Best Quotes about Business

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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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

19.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

22.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Branson, Richard

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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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

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Knudsen, William

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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

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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 selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

George Ade