Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riorio

Best Quotes about Business

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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

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

Ovid

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Forbes, B. C.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

11.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

12.

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

13.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Field, Marshall

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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 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

18.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

19.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

20.

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

Bean, L.L.

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

24.

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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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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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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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

28.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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 have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Olsen, Kenneth

32.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

34.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

35.

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

38.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

39.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

40.

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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Iacocca, Lee

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

45.

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

Warren Buffett

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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

47.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

48.

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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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.