Business Relationship Quotes

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.

  Mark Cuban

  Years, Deals, Happens

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.102, Diversion Books

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• We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

  Jeff Bezos

  Success, Jobs, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China.

  Steve Pavlina

  Wall, Business, Loyal

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• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Moving, Communication, People

  Guy Kawasaki (2011). “Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions”, p.146, Penguin

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• Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

  James Cash Penney

  Inspirational, Educational, Satisfaction

  "$Ell Your Little Heart Out!". Book by Alan L. Alford, p. 71, October 1, 2012.

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• The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur ... The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition ... on sharing information, and understanding what we as businesses do best.

  Michael Dell

  Perspective, Understanding, Competition

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• There is only one boss. The customer.

  Sam Walton

  Business, Loyal Customers, Boss

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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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.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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• Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

  Ornette Coleman

  Records, Company, Record Companies

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• There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

  David Nail

  Thinking, People, Important

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• For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.

  Will Smith

  Fun, Home, Trying

  "Mr. and Mr. Smith: Will and Jaden Psych Up for After Earth". Interview With Claire Hoffman, www.vulture.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

  Chris Cavanaugh

  Life Changing, Communication, Mean

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• Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. We seem to face a future in which the only business relationships will be opportunistic transactions between virtual strangers.

  Fred Reichheld

  Loyalty, Years, Average

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• I don`t think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, People, One Day

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspire, Constraints, Approach

  "Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. May 17, 2007.

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• NASCAR racing provides more brand awareness and interest than any of the other major sports. The opportunities to build business-to-business relationships within the racing community are endless.

  David Fricke

  Sports, Opportunity, Nascar Racing

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• The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.

  Peter Guber

  Rain, Struggle, Men

  "Why Peter Guber’s Book Tell to Win Is a Game Changer". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.

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• [Donald] Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Conflict, Trump, Interest

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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