Motivational Quotes

Business

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

10.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

11.

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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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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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

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Hook, Harold

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

29.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

33.

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

Bond, Alan

34.

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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

41.

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

George Ade

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oscar Wilde

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

50.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin