Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Business

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

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Buffett, Warren

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, American

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Ogilvy, David

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

21.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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 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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Aldus Manutius

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

38.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Thomas, Dylan

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

46.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Walton, Sam

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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.