Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ogilvy, David

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Proverb, American

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Aldus Manutius

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hawken, Paul

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Cathcart, Jim