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

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Morley, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

Proverb

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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

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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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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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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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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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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

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, American

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

George Ade

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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

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Branson, Richard

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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan