Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Knudsen, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Proverb, German

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

10.

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

Morley, John

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

Warren Buffett

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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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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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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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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Knudsen, William

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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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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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 City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan