Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Blair, Tony

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Hawken, Paul

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Branson, Richard

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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.

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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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

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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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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Revson, Charles

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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