Motivational Quotes

Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

10.

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

11.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

12.

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

Armour, P. D.

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

15.

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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Cathcart, Jim

20.

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

Perot, H. Ross

21.

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

Proverb, German

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

Morley, John

25.

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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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

35.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Malek, Fred

40.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

Welch, John

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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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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

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles