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

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Bond, Alan

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Blair, Tony

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Adolt, H. V.

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

George Ade

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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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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Shakespeare, William

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.