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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Little, Royal

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Proverb

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Ovid

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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

David Letterman

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

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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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Blair, Tony

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

Proverb, American

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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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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 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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Branson, Richard

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Get the best people and train them well.