Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Best Quotes about Business

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.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Grove, Andrew

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Patterson, John H.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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 novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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

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

Bond, Alan

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.