Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Little, Royal

Best Quotes about Business

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.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Forbes, B. C.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Onassis, Aristotle

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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 make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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 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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Dane, Frank

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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.

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

Warren Buffett

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Oscar Wilde

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Malek, Fred

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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.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Revson, Charles

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

George Ade

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

Walton, Sam

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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Branson, Richard

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo