Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

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.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Galvin, Robert

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Proverb, American

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Patterson, John H.

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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 business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

George Ade

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.