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

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

Bond, Alan

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

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

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

Tara Hunt

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Galvin, Robert

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Revson, Charles

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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 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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Morley, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Hook, Harold

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

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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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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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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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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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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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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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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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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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Foulston, Nicola

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

Bierce, Ambrose