Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Tara Hunt

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Manzi, Jim

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

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Malek, Fred

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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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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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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 is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hawken, Paul

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

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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 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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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

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Dane, Frank

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

33.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Wang, An

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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