Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bond, Alan

Best Quotes about Business

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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.

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

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

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

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

10.

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

11.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

12.

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

Basinger, Kim

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Blair, Tony

23.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

24.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

25.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

26.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Watson, Thomas J.

29.

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

Thomas, Dylan

30.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

31.

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

Walton, Sam

33.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Little, Royal

41.

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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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