Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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

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

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Ovid

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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Morley, John

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Brown, Derby

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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