Motivational Quotes

Business

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

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

Bean, L.L.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

10.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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.

12.

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

George Ade

13.

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

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

Rena, Peter

16.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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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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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

21.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

26.

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

30.

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

31.

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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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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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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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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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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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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.

39.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

48.

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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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