Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Mitchell Caplan

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Dumas, Alexandre

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Welch, John

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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.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

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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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Brown, Derby

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Ovid

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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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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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

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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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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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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