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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Bond, Alan

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Branson, Richard

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

Malek, Fred

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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

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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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Warren Buffett

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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.

33.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

36.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Khrushchev, Nikita