Motivational Quotes

Business

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Malek, Fred

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

Knudsen, William

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

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Blair, Tony

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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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Hawken, Paul

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Field, Marshall

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Ovid

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Proverb