Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Rena, Peter

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Welch, John

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Wang, An

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Galvin, Robert

11.

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

12.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

13.

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

14.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Field, Marshall

16.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

18.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

19.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

20.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

22.

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

Bean, L.L.

23.

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

24.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

29.

The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

32.

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

Ogilvy, David

33.

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

34.

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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Dane, Frank

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

Morley, John

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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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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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.