Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jurgen Schrempp

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Leavitt, Theodore

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Ovid

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Shakespeare, William

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

John Cleese

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Thomas, Dylan

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

George Ade

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

Iacocca, Lee

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.