Motivational Quotes

Business

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Business

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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.

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

Tara Hunt

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Rena, Peter

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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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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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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