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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Malek, Fred

12.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

24.

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

Blair, Tony

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

28.

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

29.

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

Field, Marshall

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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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

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Knudsen, William

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

Walton, Sam

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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, 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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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

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Bean, L.L.

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Good design can't fix broken business models.