Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Basinger, Kim

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

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

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.

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

Hook, Harold

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

Adolt, H. V.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Walton, Sam

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

22.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

23.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

27.

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

Aldus Manutius

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Collins, Nathan

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Patterson, John H.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.