Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

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

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Brown, Derby

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Collins, Nathan

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Kiam, Victor

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Proverb, American

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

George Ade

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Blair, Tony

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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

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

42.

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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Warren Buffett

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Patterson, John H.

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert