Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Field, Marshall

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Ogilvy, David

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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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 generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Wang, An

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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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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

John Cleese

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.