Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- George Ade

Best Quotes about Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Ogilvy, David

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Dickens, Charles

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Dane, Frank

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

Field, Marshall

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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