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

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

11.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

13.

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.

14.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

19.

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

Patterson, John H.

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

22.

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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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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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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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

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

27.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

31.

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

32.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Scrutton, T. L.

35.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

37.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Wang, An

39.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

41.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Field, Marshall

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be