Motivational Quotes

Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Business

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Patterson, John H.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Morley, John

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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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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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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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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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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

David Letterman

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

Bond, Alan

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Tara Hunt

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Blair, Tony

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Gerber, Michael E.