Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Proverb

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Brown, Derby

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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 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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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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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

20.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Morley, John

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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

33.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Field, Marshall

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Hawken, Paul

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

Proverb, German

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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.