Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Coke, Sir Edward

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jacobs, Randall

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Hook, Harold

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Ford, Henry

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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.

25.

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

Proverb, German

26.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Riklis, Meshulam

30.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

31.

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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

34.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Manzi, Jim

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Scrutton, T. L.

40.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

41.

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John