Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Gerber, Michael E.

Best Quotes about Business

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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.

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

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

Walton, Sam

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Tara Hunt

11.

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

Proverb

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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 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

14.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

15.

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

16.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

17.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

18.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

19.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Gerber, Michael E.

24.

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

25.

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 morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Field, Marshall

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Manzi, Jim

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

39.

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

Ford, Henry

40.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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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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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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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.