Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Business

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

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

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Warren Buffett

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

34.

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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ogilvy, David

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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.

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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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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Forbes, B. C.

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