Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Manzi, Jim

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Field, Marshall

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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 magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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