Motivational Quotes

Business

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

- Wilson, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

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

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Cathcart, Jim

11.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

13.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

17.

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

18.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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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

20.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

21.

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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

26.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Riklis, Meshulam

28.

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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

38.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

42.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Hawken, Paul

45.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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