Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

John Cleese

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

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.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

George Ade

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

Forbes, B. C.

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Riorio

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Galvin, Robert

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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