Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Business

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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.

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

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Oscar Wilde

10.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Barzan, Gerald

14.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

15.

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

Morley, John

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

17.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

18.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

20.

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

Thomas, Dylan

21.

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

22.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

23.

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

Little, Royal

24.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

25.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

26.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

27.

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.

28.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

31.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

32.

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

33.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

34.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

36.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, American

39.

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

Ogilvy, David

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

46.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

49.

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

Walton, Sam

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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