Motivational Quotes

Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Business

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Shakespeare, William

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

10.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

11.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

12.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

15.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

17.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

20.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

21.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

25.

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

Bond, Alan

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

27.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

28.

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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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

31.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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 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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Proverb

41.

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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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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Ovid

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

Hawken, Paul

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Proverb, American

48.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre