Motivational Quotes

Business

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

- Lundborg, Louis B.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

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

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Forbes, B. C.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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 poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

David Letterman

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Tara Hunt

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.