Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Woolworth, F. W.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Malek, Fred

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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 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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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Warren Buffett

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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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Tara Hunt

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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

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.