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

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

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

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

Morley, John

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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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

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Cathcart, Jim

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Armour, P. D.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Galvin, Robert

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

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

Proverb, American

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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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.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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.

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Blair, Tony

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.