Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Field, Marshall

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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 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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Ovid

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

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

David Letterman

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

Dickens, Charles

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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