Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

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

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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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

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

Ovid

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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.

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

George Ade

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

18.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

19.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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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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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Scrutton, T. L.

34.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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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.

42.

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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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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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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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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter