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

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey 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.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Kiam, Victor

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Brown, Derby

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

10.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

11.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Proverb

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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Morley, John

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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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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

21.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Bean, L.L.

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Barzan, Gerald

28.

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

Malek, Fred

29.

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

Dane, Frank

30.

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

Cathcart, Jim

31.

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

Tara Hunt

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

33.

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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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.

35.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

40.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

42.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

45.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo