Motivational Quotes

Business

Location, location, location.

- Dillard, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

John Cleese

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Coke, Sir Edward

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Collins, Nathan

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

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

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Field, Marshall

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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Dane, Frank

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

31.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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.

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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