Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Knudsen, William

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

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

Beene, Geoffrey

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

11.

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

Walton, Sam

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

David Letterman

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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

Adolt, H. V.

44.

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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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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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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

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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