Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- George Ade

Best Quotes about Business

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Adolt, H. V.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Brown, Derby

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

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

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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

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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Revson, Charles

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Proverb, American

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Malek, Fred

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.