Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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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

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

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

Hawken, Paul

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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 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 five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Ovid

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Ogilvy, David

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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Basinger, Kim

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)