Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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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

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Warren Buffett

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

Aldus Manutius

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dane, Frank

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Adolt, H. V.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Kiam, Victor

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Thomas, Dylan

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

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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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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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The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

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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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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan