Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Morley, John

Best Quotes about Business

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Hook, Harold

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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 is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Proverb, German

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

Kiam, Victor

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Dane, Frank

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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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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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Field, Marshall

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul