Motivational Quotes

Business

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

David Letterman

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

Proverb, American

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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

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

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

Revson, Charles

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

Oscar Wilde

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Branson, Richard

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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

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

Armour, P. D.

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Malek, Fred

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Blair, Tony

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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