Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mitchell Caplan

Best Quotes about Business

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Cardenas, Ruben

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

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

Grove, Andrew

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Branson, Richard

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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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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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

George Ade

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Warren Buffett

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

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

Hawken, Paul

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.