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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

Proverb, German

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

11.

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

12.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

13.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

14.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

15.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Galvin, Robert

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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 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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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

24.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

25.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

27.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

28.

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

Manzi, Jim

29.

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

Grove, Andrew

30.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

31.

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

Ogilvy, David

32.

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.

33.

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

Adolt, H. V.

34.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

35.

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

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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

37.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

38.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

39.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

40.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Basinger, Kim

44.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

46.

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

47.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bond, Alan

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John