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

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

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.

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Revson, Charles

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

George Ade

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Blair, Tony

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 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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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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.