Motivational Quotes

Business

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Leavitt, Theodore

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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.

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Branson, Richard

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kiam, Victor

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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 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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Blair, Tony

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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