Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Knudsen, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

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

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

Ovid

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

David Letterman

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

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Adolt, H. V.

22.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Proverb, American

30.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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 magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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