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

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.

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

Ford, Henry

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

John Cleese

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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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.

Ford, Henry

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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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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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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

Branson, Richard

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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.

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Blair, Tony

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Hawken, Paul

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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