Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Business

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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 a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Manzi, Jim

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Blair, Tony

13.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

14.

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

David Letterman

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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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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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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

28.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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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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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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Field, Marshall

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Hook, Harold

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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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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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.