Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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.

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

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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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 selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Bond, Alan

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

33.

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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.