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

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

Grove, Andrew

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Cathcart, Jim

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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.

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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

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

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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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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

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Galvin, Robert

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ford, Henry

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

George Ade

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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