Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Hawken, Paul

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

George Ade

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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

20.

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Forbes, B. C.

28.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Iacocca, Lee

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