Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

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

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

Field, Marshall

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.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Ogilvy, David

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

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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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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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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

28.

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

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Patterson, John H.

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

Armour, P. D.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb, American

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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.