Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Welch, John

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

David Letterman

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Buffett, Warren

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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 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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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Basinger, Kim

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

George Ade

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

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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

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

Adolt, H. V.