Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

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

Brown, Derby

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Field, Marshall

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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

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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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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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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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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

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Mitchell Caplan

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Malek, Fred

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

Bond, Alan

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