Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Manzi, Jim

Best Quotes about Business

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

Grove, Andrew

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Blair, Tony

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

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Manzi, Jim

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Little, Royal

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

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Revson, Charles

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

George Ade

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill