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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Beene, Geoffrey

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

30.

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

31.

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

Walton, Sam

32.

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

Iacocca, Lee

33.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

34.

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

Ford, Henry

35.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ford, Henry

40.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

41.

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 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.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

John Cleese