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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

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

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Malek, Fred

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

David Letterman

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Blair, Tony

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Proverb, American

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Walton, Sam

37.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

45.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren