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

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

Mitchell Caplan

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

12.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Hawken, Paul

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Blair, Tony

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Field, Marshall

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

Barzan, Gerald

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Revson, Charles

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.