Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Proverb, American

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

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

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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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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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

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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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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Bond, Alan

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Knudsen, William