Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Cardenas, Ruben

Best Quotes about Business

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

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

David Letterman

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

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Manzi, Jim

10.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

12.

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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

18.

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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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

24.

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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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

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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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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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

31.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

32.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

33.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

34.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Hook, Harold

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Riklis, Meshulam