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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Knudsen, William

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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Malek, Fred

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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

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Blair, Tony

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Warren Buffett

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Bond, Alan

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Field, Marshall