Motivational Quotes

Business

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

- Wang, An

Best Quotes about Business

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.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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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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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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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Ogilvy, David

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Field, Marshall

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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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

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

Proverb, German

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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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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

31.

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

Ovid

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

David Letterman

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Mitchell Caplan

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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It's the economy, stupid.