Motivational Quotes

Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

- Henderson, Bruce

Best Quotes about Business

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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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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

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Ogilvy, David

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

George Ade

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

David Letterman

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Ovid

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dane, Frank

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Proverb, American

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cardenas, Ruben