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

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

Dane, Frank

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

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Welch, John

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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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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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Brown, Derby

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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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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.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Morley, John

28.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Manzi, Jim

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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 we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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A dinner lubricates business.