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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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.

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.

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.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Dane, Frank

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Armour, P. D.

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Thomas, Dylan

30.

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

George Ade

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

40.

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

Ford, Henry

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, American

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Gerber, Michael E.