Motivational Quotes

Business

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

- Khrushchev, Nikita

Best Quotes about Business

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

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

11.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

12.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

24.

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

Field, Marshall

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

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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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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.

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Proverb, German

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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

34.

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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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.

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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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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

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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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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Ovid

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Malek, Fred

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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