Motivational Quotes

Business

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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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.

Walton, Sam

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Armour, P. D.

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Branson, Richard

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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 buy when other people are selling.