Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilson, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

19.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Ogilvy, David

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Malek, Fred

30.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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 you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tara Hunt

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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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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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