Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Tara Hunt

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

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

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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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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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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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Galvin, Robert

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Proverb, German

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Hook, Harold

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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

32.

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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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 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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

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

Field, Marshall

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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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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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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 magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill