Motivational Quotes

Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

- Ross, Steven J.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Iacocca, Lee

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Bond, Alan

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Walton, Sam

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

Morley, John

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Forbes, B. C.

23.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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

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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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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.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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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.

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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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

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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.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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 your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.