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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Collins, Nathan

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

11.

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.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Basinger, Kim

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blair, Tony

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

Scrutton, T. L.

21.

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

Warren Buffett

23.

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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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

30.

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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

34.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Field, Marshall

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Aldus Manutius

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar