Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Blair, Tony

Best Quotes about Business

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Cathcart, Jim

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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.

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

Basinger, Kim

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Field, Marshall

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Walton, Sam

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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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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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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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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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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

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.