Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Stuart, Edwin H.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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.

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

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

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

11.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Hook, Harold

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Cathcart, Jim

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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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 business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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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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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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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

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