Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Welch, John

Best Quotes about Business

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

George Ade

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

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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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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Armour, P. D.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Dane, Frank

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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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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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 business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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.