Motivational Quotes

Business

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Scrutton, T. L.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Perot, H. Ross

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

14.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

15.

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

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

18.

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

Bond, Alan

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

21.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

37.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

David Letterman

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.