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

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Jacobs, Randall

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

11.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Morley, John

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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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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

25.

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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Revson, Charles

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

Welch, John

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

39.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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