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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Patterson, John H.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tara Hunt

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

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb, American

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Galvin, Robert

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Proverb

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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.

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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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

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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