Motivational Quotes

Business

The business of the country is business.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Business

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Bean, L.L.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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.

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

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Aldus Manutius

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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 propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Jacobs, Randall

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Morley, John

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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

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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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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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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 a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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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