Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Khrushchev, Nikita

Best Quotes about Business

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

Knudsen, William

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

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

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

Bond, Alan

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Little, Royal

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Hook, Harold

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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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

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Welch, John

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

39.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Malek, Fred

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Warren Buffett

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger