Motivational Quotes

Business

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

- Manzi, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Proverb, German

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Warren Buffett

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Malek, Fred

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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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 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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

George Ade

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.