Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dahlberg, Edward

Best Quotes about Business

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Rena, Peter

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Knudsen, William

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

Coke, Sir Edward

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Branson, Richard

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

12.

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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

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

Malek, Fred

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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

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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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

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

Blair, Tony

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Scrutton, T. L.

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David