Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Dane, Frank

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

John Cleese

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

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

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

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Galvin, Robert

10.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

11.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

12.

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 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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

16.

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

17.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

18.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

22.

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

23.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

26.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

27.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hawken, Paul

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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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

35.

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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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.

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

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

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

David Letterman

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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