Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Rena, Peter

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Brown, Derby

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

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

Tara Hunt

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

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

George Ade

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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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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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Galvin, Robert

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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

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

Blair, Tony

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

37.

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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

40.

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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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

46.

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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Khrushchev, Nikita