Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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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.

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

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Jacobs, Randall

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Galvin, Robert

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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.

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.