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

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Jurgen Schrempp

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Beene, Geoffrey

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Proverb

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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.

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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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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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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.

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Mitchell Caplan

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication