Motivational Quotes

Business

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bond, Alan

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

Manzi, Jim

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Dane, Frank

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

George Ade

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Little, Royal

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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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

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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