Motivational Quotes

Business

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

- Laura Moncur

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Proverb, American

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

George Ade

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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 business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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