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Business Quotes

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Few people do business well who do nothing else.

– Lord Chesterfield

Every job is a self-portrait … Autograph your work with excellence.

– NJ, Sign giving instructions to the cleaning crew of a lighting store in Matawan

Even if you can deceive people about a product through misleading statements, sooner or later the product will speak for itself.

– Hajime Karatsu

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

– Victor Kiam

Drive thy business; let it not drive thee.

– Benjamin Franklin

E=MC(squared) Enthusiasm equals Mission times Cash and Congratulations

– Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles

Don’t wait for someone else to make all the calls.

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked?

– Edward Thurlow

Customer: A person who indirectly pays for all your vacations, hobbies, and golf games and gives you the opportunity to better yourself.

Customers are like teeth. Ignore them and they’ll go away.

– Jerry “G” Flanagan

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

– Stanley Marcus

Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

– Ambrose Bierce

Committee–a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

– Henry R. Luce

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

Boss spelled backwards is self-explanatory (Note – This is a US euphemism. Contact an American for further explanation!)

Bottom-line obsession comes from turning the pursuit of money into a God and forgetting the real master your business serves: The Customer.

– Michael Shevack

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

– Honore’ De Balzac

At the end of each day, the assets of most businesses walk out the door. The big challenge is to create the type of environment which will cause them to look forward to returning the next morning.

– Grant M. Bright

At the end of every day, the assets of most companies walk out the door. The challenge facing those companies is to provide an environment that will encourage their assets to want to return the next morning.

AN EMPOWERED ORGANIZATION: (Empowerment): Giving every employee the MEANS, MOTIVATION & OPPORTUNITY to do their jobs.

– Tom Corcoran

All customers are not created equal. Chances are, 80 percent of repeat business will come from 20 percent of your customers.

A sale is not something you pursue; it’s what happens to you while you are immersed in serving your customer.

A message for business people: Whatever happens never happens by itself.

A mission statement is defined as “a long awkward sentence that demonstrates management’s inability to think clearly.” All good companies have one.

– 1996, From The Dilbert Principle

A frustrated manager complained that every time he provided training, the now highly skilled employee was snatched up by a competitor. However, the only thing worse than training people and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

– John Le Carre

A CEO “should add value or get out of the way for someone who will.”

– Allen Sheppard

6 out of 10 people don’t like to go to their jobs each day.

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