Motivational Quotes

Business

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

- Chandler, Raymond

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

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

Branson, Richard

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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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.

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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Malek, Fred

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Blair, Tony

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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 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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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Knudsen, William

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

Cardenas, Ruben