Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Welch, John

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

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

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

12.

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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Warren Buffett

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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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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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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Hook, Harold

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Armour, P. D.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John