Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Business

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

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

Blair, Tony

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

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

14.

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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

16.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

21.

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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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

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

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

32.

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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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.

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

Proverb

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jacobs, Randall

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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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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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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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