Motivational Quotes

Business

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Hawken, Paul

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Buffett, Warren

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

A hard thing about business is minding your own

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

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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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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Ogilvy, David

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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

Dane, Frank

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Field, Marshall

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Galvin, Robert

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

George Ade

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold