Motivational Quotes

Business

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

- Blanchard, Ken

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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

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

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

Aldus Manutius

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

30.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hawken, Paul

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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

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

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Olsen, Kenneth