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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Aldus Manutius

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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

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

Dane, Frank

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Hawken, Paul

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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

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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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.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.