Motivational Quotes

Business

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Business

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Leavitt, Theodore

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

George Ade

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

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Bond, Alan

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Field, Marshall

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Ogilvy, David

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Morley, John

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Malek, Fred

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

Hook, Harold

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Armour, P. D.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Stuart, Edwin H.