Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb, German

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

Hook, Harold

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

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

10.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

11.

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

Revson, Charles

12.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

13.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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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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, 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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

18.

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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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

20.

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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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

22.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

23.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Gerber, Michael E.

25.

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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

28.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

29.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

33.

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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

35.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

37.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

38.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.