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

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

Welch, John

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

Little, Royal

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

Knudsen, William

A hard thing about business is minding your own

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Ogilvy, David

10.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

11.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

David Letterman

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Walton, Sam

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

36.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Hawken, Paul

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

48.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose