Motivational Quotes

Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

- Kroc, Ray

Best Quotes about Business

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mitchell Caplan

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

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

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Malek, Fred

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Branson, Richard

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Bean, L.L.

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Revson, Charles

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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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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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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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