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

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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.

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

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

13.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

14.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

15.

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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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

18.

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.

19.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

21.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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

28.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

29.

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

30.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

31.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

32.

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

Field, Marshall

33.

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

Revson, Charles

34.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

36.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

37.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

38.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

39.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

40.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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.

43.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

44.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

47.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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