Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

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 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.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Riorio

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

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Armour, P. D.

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

George Ade

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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

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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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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

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Proverb

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

Manzi, Jim

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.