Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Hook, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

A hard thing about business is minding your own

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Manzi, Jim

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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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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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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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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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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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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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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 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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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hook, Harold

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.