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

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

Tara Hunt

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Morley, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

14.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

15.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

16.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

17.

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

18.

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

19.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

20.

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

Cathcart, Jim

21.

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

Galvin, Robert

22.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

24.

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

25.

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

27.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

28.

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

29.

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

30.

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

Jacobs, Randall

31.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

32.

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

33.

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

Bond, Alan

34.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

35.

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

Field, Marshall

36.

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

37.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

38.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

39.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

40.

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

41.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

43.

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

Patterson, John H.

44.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

46.

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

Thomas, Dylan

48.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

49.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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.