Motivational Quotes

Business

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

- Warren Buffett

Best Quotes about Business

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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.

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

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

Wang, An

10.

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.

11.

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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

17.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

18.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

19.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

20.

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

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

Galvin, Robert

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Mcnealy, Scott

25.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, German

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

31.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

33.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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

39.

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

40.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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