Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jurgen Schrempp

Best Quotes about Business

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Riorio

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

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

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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

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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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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.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Armour, P. D.

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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 great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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.

Warhol, Andy

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

Barzan, Gerald

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Malek, Fred

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.