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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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.

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

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

George Ade

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

David Letterman

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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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 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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.