Motivational Quotes

Business

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

- Smith, Roger

Best Quotes about Business

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

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

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

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Tara Hunt

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

13.

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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Forbes, B. C.

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Welch, John

19.

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Malek, Fred

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

Dumas, Alexandre

23.

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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

26.

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

Proverb

27.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

28.

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

29.

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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

34.

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

Proverb, German

35.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Wang, An

40.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Dane, Frank

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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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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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.