Motivational Quotes

Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

- Ross, Steven J.

Best Quotes about Business

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.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Field, Marshall

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Ovid

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Branson, Richard

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Bean, L.L.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Hawken, Paul

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