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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

Warren Buffett

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Collins, Nathan

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

13.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

14.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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 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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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

19.

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

Field, Marshall

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Dumas, Alexandre

24.

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

Galvin, Robert

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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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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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Malek, Fred

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

34.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

35.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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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.

39.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

40.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

41.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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.

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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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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.