Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Armour, P. D.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Onassis, Aristotle

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

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

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

David Letterman

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Armour, P. D.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Ogilvy, David

18.

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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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.