Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Riklis, Meshulam

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Proverb

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 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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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 like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bond, Alan

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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

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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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Seth Godin

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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