Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Peters, Thomas J.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

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

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

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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

11.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

15.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

George Ade

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Brown, Derby

20.

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

Morley, John

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

27.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

28.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

29.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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

32.

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

33.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

40.

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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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

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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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

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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