Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Wang, An

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

Mcnealy, Scott

12.

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

13.

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

Barzan, Gerald

14.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

18.

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

19.

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

Iacocca, Lee

20.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

21.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

22.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

23.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

24.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

25.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

26.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

27.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

30.

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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

33.

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

34.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

35.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

36.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Iacocca, Lee

40.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

41.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

42.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

43.

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

44.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

45.

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

Patterson, John H.

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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

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig