Motivational Quotes

Business

Get the best people and train them well.

- Merrill, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Warren Buffett

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

Welch, John

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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Tara Hunt

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

18.

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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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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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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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Malek, Fred

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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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

42.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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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.