Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

George Ade

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Bond, Alan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Branson, Richard

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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 a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rena, Peter

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.