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

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

Bean, L.L.

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Knudsen, William

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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

Bond, Alan

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 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 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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Morley, John

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Gerber, Michael E.

38.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Field, Marshall

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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.