Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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.

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Hook, Harold

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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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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 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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Walton, Sam

23.

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

Ovid

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Field, Marshall

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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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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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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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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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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.