Motivational Quotes

Business

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

- Gilbey, Walter

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Bond, Alan

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Brown, Derby

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

Ogilvy, David

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

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

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

Proverb, German

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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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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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Oscar Wilde

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Field, Marshall

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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

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