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

Hook, Harold

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

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Blair, Tony

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

10.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

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

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

17.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

18.

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

Patterson, John H.

19.

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

Armour, P. D.

20.

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

Rena, Peter

21.

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 secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

23.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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

25.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

28.

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

Mitchell Caplan

31.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

32.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

33.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

34.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

39.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

41.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

42.

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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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

44.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

45.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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.