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

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

Jurgen Schrempp

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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.

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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Rena, Peter

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.