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

Geneen, Harold S.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Bond, Alan

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

To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Brown, Derby

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Warren Buffett

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

John Cleese

13.

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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

17.

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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

20.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

David Letterman

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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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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

28.

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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

31.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

34.

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

35.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Kiam, Victor

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

41.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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.

43.

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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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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