Motivational Quotes

Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

- Beaverbrook, Lord

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Warren Buffett

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Basinger, Kim

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

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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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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.

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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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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

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Hawken, Paul

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Proverb, American

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Malek, Fred

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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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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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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

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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