Motivational Quotes

Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

- Henderson, Bruce

Best Quotes about Business

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Knudsen, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Rena, Peter

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

Warren Buffett

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

10.

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

Oscar Wilde

11.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

12.

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

13.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

14.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

15.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

18.

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

Blair, Tony

19.

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

Morley, John

20.

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

21.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

22.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

23.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

24.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

25.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Ovid

31.

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

Field, Marshall

32.

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

37.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

38.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

40.

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

Walton, Sam

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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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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

43.

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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Hook, Harold

47.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony