Motivational Quotes

Business

Location, location, location.

- Dillard, William

Best Quotes about Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Little, Royal

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Malek, Fred

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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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 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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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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.