Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Thomas, Dylan

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Proverb, American

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Malek, Fred

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Perot, H. Ross

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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 buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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.