To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.
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 Greenspan
Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. – Smiley Blanton
Let’s be honest. There’s not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. – Bob Parsons
Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator. – Richard Pratt
The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. – Harold Geneen
[A]nd now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. – Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of
You can’t file a conversation. – P.C. Woodhull, c.1940s
Customers overwhelmingly show appreciation for great service with their wallets. – Help Scout (www.helpscout.net), “75 Customer Service Facts, Quotes & Statist
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. – Jay Leno
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. – Confucius
It is unfortunate we can’t buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. – Malcolm Forbes
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. – Kazuo Inamori
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it. – Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727
Every corporation has a complaint process that begins with someone telling you that you are the first person to ever complain about this. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. – Norman Cousins
Work as if you own the company and soon you just might. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer. – Dale Carnegie
Any business with customers is in the “people” business. – Help Scout (www.helpscout.net), “75 Customer Service Facts, Quotes & Statist
