Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hook, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Bond, Alan

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

20.

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

Little, Royal

21.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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

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

Cathcart, Jim

28.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

30.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

31.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

39.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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What helps people, helps business.