Motivational Quotes

Business

It's the economy, stupid.

- Clinton, Bill

Best Quotes about Business

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

John Cleese

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Hawken, Paul

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

Morley, John

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Bond, Alan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

George Ade

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Branson, Richard

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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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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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

43.

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

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Welch, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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