Motivational Quotes

Business

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

- Brown, Derby

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Jacobs, Randall

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Morley, John

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Mitchell Caplan

20.

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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Blair, Tony

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

Revson, Charles

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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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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

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Barzan, Gerald

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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.

43.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Aldus Manutius

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dane, Frank

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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