Motivational Quotes

Business

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

- Warren Buffett

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Armour, P. D.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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 have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

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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

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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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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Proverb

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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 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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.