Motivational Quotes

Business

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

- Walton, Sam

Best Quotes about Business

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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.

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Basinger, Kim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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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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's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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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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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

David Letterman

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Gerber, Michael E.

35.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William