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Business Quotes
Business quotes by author-names starting with A Alan Greenspan: I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. Alan Ryan: We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are. Alan Sugar: Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else. Alvin Toffler: Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. Andrew Carnegie: And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. Andrew Goodsell: I imagine he'll buy the whole of Kent. Anita Roddick: If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. Author Unknown: When you own your own business, you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours. Aristotle Onassis: The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows. Arthur Kroc: It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. Business quotes by author-names starting with B Benjamin Franklin: If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time. Benjamin Graham: Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything. Bill Gates: Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Brian Tracy: I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Business quotes by author-names starting with C Carlos Slim Helu: In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances. Charles Schwab: The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Chip Goodyear: If I had the choice of hiring someone with connections or someone with skills and talent, I'd go with the latter. Business quotes by author-names starting with D Dave Barry: American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors. David Farber: A buck in the hand is worth two on the books. David Geffen: Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money. David Ogilvy: What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it. Business quotes by author-names starting with E Emma Harrison: There are three things that you should spend you time doing: Marketing, marketing, marketing. It is the most important thing that someone growing a business should be doing. If you are not prepared to do that, then everything else is irrelevant. Eric Daniels: Find the things you like to do. Life is short, and it doesn't make sense if you don't love what you are doing. Estee Lauder: If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you. Business quotes by author-names starting with F Fairfax Cone: There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. Fred Goodwin: Clear leadership and support for our frontline staff is of critical importance to the future growth and development of the Group. Business quotes by author-names starting with G George Ross: To be successful, you have to be able to relate to people; they have to be satisfied with your personality to be able to do business with you and to build a relationship with mutual trust. George Soros: Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. Gianni Versace: In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do. Gordon Moore: The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals. Business quotes by author-names starting with H Harold Geneen: You can't run a business or anything else on a theory. Henry Ford II: In seeking to serve social needs because it makes good business sense to do so, a corporation is doing what it knows how to do best. Hermann Hauser: I remember when Bill Gates visited me to sell me MS DOS, his operating system. I told him we couldn't take such a retrograde step. Business quotes by author-names starting with J James Goldsmith: If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. James Surowiecki: If you want to make a correct decision or solve a problem, large groups of people are smarter than a few experts. Jeff Bezos: If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. Jerry Yang: I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first. Jim Clark: No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming. Joel A Barker: Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. John Varley: As we continue to increase earnings, we continue to invest for the future. Jonathon J Salomon: We as consumers will not tolerate a poor product or service, then why do we allow and in fact manage and lead a business that allows a less than tolerable product or service to exist? Business quotes by author-names starting with K Kerry Packer: The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously. Kim Polese: There are four of us: me and Sami Shaio, Jon Payne and Arthur van Hoff. All four of us are part of the original core Java team. It was a combination of a personal decision for each one of us, and a realization that this was the right time, the opportune time in the market. Each one of us, I think, had always wanted to be an entrepreneur. Business quotes by author-names starting with L Lakshmi Mittal: I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting. Larry Ellison: A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. Larry Ellison: When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts. Larry Page: We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many. Lloyd Dorfman: Have a feel for the medium and long-term trends in the field that you are in. Lord Levene: If the business is going well it's nothing to do with you and if it's going badly then it's all your fault. Business quotes by author-names starting with M Malcolm Williamson: My wife thinks I'm completely mad. Mark Cuban: Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. Martha Lane Fox: It has always been my ambition to see the group deliver a full year of profitability. Now this has been achieved, it is the right time for the business and the right time for me to explore other challenges. Martha Stewart: I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. Michael Armstrong: The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch. Michael Dell: The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals. Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. Business quotes by author-names starting with P Peter Lynch: Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business. Phil Knight: Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are really part of a very big advertising program, and the fact that they make so much money is because the markets have dictated that they get that money, and the fact that they endorse our products allows us to sell more products and create more jobs. Pierre Omidyar: EBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system. Business quotes by author-names starting with R Rachel Elnaugh: Never give up. Learning from failure is an essential part of the entrepreneur's experience. Ray Kroc: If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. Richard Branson: A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Richard Wyckoff: Listen to what the market is saying about others, not what others are saying about the market. Robert Iger: Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire. Robin Rowland: Really successful people don't live in the present. They imagine the future and visualise what their customers want. Ross Perot: Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers. Rupert Murdoch: The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. Business quotes by author-names starting with S Sam Walton: There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. Scott Alexander: Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully. Sergey Brin: Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world. Simon Woodroffe: Business has been so drab, all grey suits and cufflinks. But there's a whole new generation of entrepreneurs starting to make it fun. Soichiro Honda: Success is ninety-nine percent failure. Business quotes by author-names starting with T Ted Turner: You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Thomas Power: There is no doubt in my mind that random groups of people thrown together in unstructured networks can outperform any aggregrated homogeneous corporation. Business quotes by author-names starting with V Victor Kiam: Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. Vince Power: I'll retire when I'm six months dead. Business quotes by author-names starting with W Warren Buffett: The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behaviour, but simple behavior is more effective. Wayne Huizenga: I don't want to be just a voice on the phone. I have to get to know these guys face to face and develop a sincere relationship. William Wrigley Jnr: Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up. Business quotes by author-names starting with Z Zig Ziglar: If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar: Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. These are the business quotes that appealed me quite a bit - in a way; they are my personal choice from amongst a host of them. I'll keep adding more to them as and when I come across the ones that touch me deep. Keep checking, if you please! I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. 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