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

Gerber, Michael E.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Wang, An

10.

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

11.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

12.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

13.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

18.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

23.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

25.

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.

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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 most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

32.

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

33.

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

Bean, L.L.

34.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

35.

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

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

Basinger, Kim

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Adolt, H. V.

40.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

41.

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

42.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

45.

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

Malek, Fred

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

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul