Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jurgen Schrempp

Best Quotes about Business

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

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Walton, Sam

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

11.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Warren Buffett

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

21.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

23.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

24.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

25.

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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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

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

30.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

31.

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

Little, Royal

32.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

33.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Hook, Harold

35.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

36.

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

Adolt, H. V.

37.

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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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

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

41.

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

Cathcart, Jim

42.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

43.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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

45.

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

Bean, L.L.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

48.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows