Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Business

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

Blair, Tony

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Adolt, H. V.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Proverb, American

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

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Armour, P. D.

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Morley, John

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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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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

36.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Walton, Sam