Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Grove, Andrew

Best Quotes about Business

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Adolt, H. V.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

10.

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

Bond, Alan

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

13.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

14.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

15.

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

Rena, Peter

17.

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

Aldus Manutius

18.

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

Ovid

19.

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

Warren Buffett

20.

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

Bean, L.L.

21.

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

28.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

31.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

32.

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

33.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

34.

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

Grove, Andrew

35.

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

Brown, Derby

36.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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

40.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

42.

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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

46.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

48.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert