Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- John Cleese

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Perot, H. Ross

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Warren Buffett

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

Ogilvy, David

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Branson, Richard

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ford, Henry

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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 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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bond, Alan

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Riklis, Meshulam