Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Perot, H. Ross

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Galvin, Robert

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Proverb

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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.

22.

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

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

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

Revson, Charles

29.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Branson, Richard

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Proverb, American

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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.

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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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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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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.