Motivational Quotes

Business

A dinner lubricates business.

- Lord William Stowell

Best Quotes about Business

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Brown, Derby

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

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Hook, Harold

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

Branson, Richard

10.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Oscar Wilde

12.

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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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

14.

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

Jacobs, Randall

15.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

16.

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

19.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

20.

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

Malek, Fred

21.

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

22.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

24.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

26.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

29.

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

30.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

31.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

32.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

33.

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

34.

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

Walton, Sam

36.

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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

38.

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

39.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

41.

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

David Letterman

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

44.

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

Aldus Manutius

45.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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

47.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

48.

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

Grove, Andrew

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan