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

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.

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Rena, Peter

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

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

11.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

12.

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

13.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

14.

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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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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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

17.

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

Wang, An

19.

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

George Ade

20.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

21.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Dickens, Charles

25.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

27.

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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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

33.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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.

35.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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

38.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Collins, Nathan

41.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, German

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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