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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

David Letterman

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.

10.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

11.

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

12.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

13.

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

Tara Hunt

14.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

15.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

16.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

17.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

18.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Manzi, Jim

21.

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

22.

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Buffett, Warren

26.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

27.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

28.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

29.

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

30.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

31.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

32.

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

33.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

34.

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

35.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

36.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

37.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

41.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

43.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

44.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

45.

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

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Armour, P. D.

48.

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.

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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.