Motivational Quotes

Business

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

- Field, Marshall

Best Quotes about Business

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Hook, Harold

10.

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

George Ade

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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

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

Proverb, German

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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

18.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

19.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

20.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

26.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

30.

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

Hawken, Paul

31.

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

32.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

33.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Jacobs, Randall

36.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

37.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

40.

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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.