Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

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.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Blair, Tony

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Morley, John

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

Proverb, American

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.