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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Buffett, Warren

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Kiam, Victor

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

David Letterman

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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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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 never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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 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.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Field, Marshall

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

George Ade

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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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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.