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

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Armour, P. D.

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Field, Marshall

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

George Ade

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Hawken, Paul

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

David Letterman

43.

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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.