Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

Ovid

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

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

10.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

11.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

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

14.

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

George Ade

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

David Letterman

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

Galvin, Robert

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Morley, John

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

27.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

28.

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

34.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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

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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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

46.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.