Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Mitchell Caplan

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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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

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Welch, John

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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 a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Warren Buffett