Motivational Quotes

Business

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

- Blanchard, Ken

Best Quotes about Business

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

Armour, P. D.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

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

George Ade

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Revson, Charles

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Wang, An

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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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

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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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