Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Field, Marshall

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

Knudsen, William

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

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

Kiam, Victor

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

10.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

11.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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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

13.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

14.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Bond, Alan

17.

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

18.

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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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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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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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

23.

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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

27.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

28.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Ogilvy, David

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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

33.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

34.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Proverb

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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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

39.

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

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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 employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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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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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

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

Proverb, German