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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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.

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

Branson, Richard

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

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

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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.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, 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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

27.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

28.

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

Bond, Alan

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

David Letterman

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

George Ade

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

Kiam, Victor

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

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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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