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

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Branson, Richard

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Field, Marshall

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

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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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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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

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

33.

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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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Malek, Fred

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