Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mcnealy, Scott

Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, American

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.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Dane, Frank

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Forbes, B. C.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Field, Marshall

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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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.

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bond, Alan

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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.