Motivational Quotes

Business

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

10.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

12.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

24.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

25.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Dane, Frank

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ford, Henry

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.