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

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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.

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

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

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

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

12.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

13.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

15.

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.

16.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

17.

It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

18.

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

Hook, Harold

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

21.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

22.

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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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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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.

25.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

26.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

27.

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.

28.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

29.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

30.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

31.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

32.

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

Warren Buffett

33.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

34.

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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

36.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

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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

47.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

48.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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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.