Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bond, Alan

Best Quotes about Business

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Wang, An

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Blair, Tony

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

Jacobs, Randall

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Revson, Charles

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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.

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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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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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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.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Barzan, Gerald

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

33.

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

Tara Hunt

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew