Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Blair, Tony

Best Quotes about Business

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

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

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Walton, Sam

10.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

12.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

13.

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

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

17.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

21.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

22.

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

23.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

24.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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.

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

28.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

29.

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

30.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

32.

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

Hook, Harold

33.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Grove, Andrew

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

39.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

40.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

42.

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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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 a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

George Ade

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

Jacobs, Randall

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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