Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Business

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Dickens, Charles

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Walton, Sam

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb

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

Armour, P. D.

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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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

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

Malek, Fred

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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

41.

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

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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

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kiam, Victor

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William