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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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.

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

Ford, Henry

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Gerber, Michael E.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Patterson, John H.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

13.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

14.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

18.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Proverb, German

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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 selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Dane, Frank

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

43.

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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

49.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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