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

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

Aldus Manutius

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George Ade

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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 consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ovid

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Bond, Alan