Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Khrushchev, Nikita

Best Quotes about Business

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

Ogilvy, David

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dane, Frank

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

12.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

18.

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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Ogilvy, David

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

25.

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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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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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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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

40.

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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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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

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

Field, Marshall

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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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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