Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Field, Marshall

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Brown, Derby

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

Watson, Thomas J.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Proverb, American

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

Manzi, Jim

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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

11.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

12.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

13.

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

Proverb, German

14.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Dane, Frank

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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

18.

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

Blair, Tony

19.

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

20.

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

Ford, Henry

21.

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

Little, Royal

22.

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

23.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

24.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

25.

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

Armour, P. D.

26.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

27.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

28.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

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

Rena, Peter

31.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

32.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

33.

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

34.

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

Bond, Alan

35.

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

36.

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

Grove, Andrew

37.

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

38.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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.

40.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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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

42.

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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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

44.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

45.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

49.

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

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry