Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Bond, Alan

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

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

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

Collins, Nathan

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

George Ade

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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

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Aldus Manutius

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

David Letterman

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Thomas, Dylan

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Grove, Andrew

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

Hawken, Paul

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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 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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.