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

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Morley, John

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

14.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Ovid

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

Bean, L.L.

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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

25.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

32.

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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Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Watson, Thomas J.

35.

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

Proverb

36.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

41.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

42.

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

Blair, Tony

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

45.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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