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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

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

Grove, Andrew

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

George Ade

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Malek, Fred

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Iacocca, Lee

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Morley, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

34.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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.