Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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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

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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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

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

Ovid

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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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

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

26.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

George Ade

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo