Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

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

Hawken, Paul

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Aldus Manutius

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Dane, Frank

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Branson, Richard

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Field, Marshall

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb, American

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