Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Branson, Richard

Best Quotes about Business

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

Field, Marshall

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Jacobs, Randall

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

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

Hook, Harold

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

10.

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

11.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Oscar Wilde

13.

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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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Leavitt, Theodore

20.

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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

23.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Olsen, Kenneth

25.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

28.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Patterson, John H.

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

34.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

41.

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

42.

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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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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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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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.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Ogilvy, David

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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.