Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

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

Hook, Harold

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

Manzi, Jim

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

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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 steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Perot, H. Ross

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.