Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Wilson, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Wilson, Charles E.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Walton, Sam

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Field, Marshall

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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 magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Basinger, Kim

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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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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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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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

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

George Ade

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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Galvin, Robert