Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Best Quotes about Business

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Walton, Sam

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

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Ovid

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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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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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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

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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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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.

23.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Proverb, German

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

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

David Letterman

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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

Warren Buffett

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

Onassis, Aristotle