Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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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

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

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

29.

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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Malek, Fred

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

George Ade

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Proverb

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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

43.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Field, Marshall

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.