Motivational Quotes

Business

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Best Quotes about Business

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

David Letterman

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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

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

Warren Buffett

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

George Ade

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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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Galvin, Robert

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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

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

23.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Field, Marshall

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.