Motivational Quotes

Business

What helps people, helps business.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Hook, Harold

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

Revson, Charles

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Galvin, Robert

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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

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The chief business of the American people is business.