Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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.

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

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Collins, Nathan

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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.