Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Revson, Charles

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Bean, L.L.

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

George Ade

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Hook, Harold

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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

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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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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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.

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Brown, Derby

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin