Motivational Quotes

Business

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

- O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Best Quotes about Business

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Onassis, Aristotle

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Warren Buffett

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

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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.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Proverb, American

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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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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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Patterson, John H.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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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 dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.