Motivational Quotes

Business

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Business

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

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

Little, Royal

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

John Cleese

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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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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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

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Grove, Andrew

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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

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William