Motivational Quotes

Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Business

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

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.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Morley, John

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

George Ade

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proverb

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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 very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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

Ovid

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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

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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.