Motivational Quotes

Business

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

- Thomas, Dylan

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

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

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

Ogilvy, David

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

Field, Marshall

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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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.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Wang, An

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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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

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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