Motivational Quotes

Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Warren Buffett

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Ford, Henry

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Hook, Harold

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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

George Ade

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Malek, Fred

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

Knudsen, William

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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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

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!