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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Adolt, H. V.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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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.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Field, Marshall

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

David Letterman

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Warren Buffett

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.