Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jurgen Schrempp

Best Quotes about Business

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

10.

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

Collins, Nathan

11.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

13.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

15.

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

Bond, Alan

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

17.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

18.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

19.

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

George Ade

20.

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

Hook, Harold

22.

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

23.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

24.

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

Wang, An

25.

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 work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

27.

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

28.

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

Forbes, B. C.

29.

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

Riorio

30.

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

Patterson, John H.

31.

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

32.

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

Warren Buffett

33.

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

Little, Royal

34.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

35.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

36.

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

37.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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

39.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

40.

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

41.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

42.

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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

44.

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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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

46.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter