Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Ovid

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

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

Malek, Fred

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

11.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Geneen, Harold S.

14.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Armour, P. D.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

21.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

23.

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

24.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

25.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

28.

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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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

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

33.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

George Ade

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Tara Hunt

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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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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Proverb