Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Ovid

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Field, Marshall

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Proverb, German

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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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

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Adolt, H. V.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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.