Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riklis, Meshulam

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

Bamford, Joe

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.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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

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

Galvin, Robert

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Warren Buffett

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Riorio

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ovid

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Malek, Fred

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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.