Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Kiam, Victor

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Morley, John

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Cardenas, Ruben

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Wilson, Charles E.

10.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

11.

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

Ogilvy, David

12.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

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

Knudsen, William

14.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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

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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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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

20.

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

Perot, H. Ross

21.

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

Forbes, B. C.

22.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

31.

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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

33.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

34.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

35.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Gerber, Michael E.

37.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Ovid

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Walton, Sam

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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.