Motivational Quotes

Business

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Business

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Barzan, Gerald

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Hook, Harold

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

18.

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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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bond, Alan

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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

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

30.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Woolworth, F. W.