Motivational Quotes

Business

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

- Welch, John

Best Quotes about Business

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Warren Buffett

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Ovid

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

Field, Marshall

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

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.

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Cathcart, Jim

18.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

25.

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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

30.

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.

31.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

32.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

33.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

35.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

37.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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

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

42.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

44.

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

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

46.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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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