Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Best Quotes about Business

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dickens, Charles

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Hawken, Paul

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Hook, Harold

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Warren Buffett

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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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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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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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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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.