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

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Branson, Richard

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Grove, Andrew

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

Malek, Fred

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Hook, Harold

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

Oscar Wilde

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Warren Buffett

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Blair, Tony

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.