Motivational Quotes

Business

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

- Blanchard, Ken

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Jacobs, Randall

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Dickens, Charles

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

George Ade

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, German

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

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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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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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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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