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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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.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Warren Buffett

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

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

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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 business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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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

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

Bond, Alan

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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

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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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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.