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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Warren Buffett

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

Shakespeare, William

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, German

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Grove, Andrew

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

John Cleese

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

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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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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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Malek, Fred

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

Ovid

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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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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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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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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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