Quotes about business

"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."

Geneen, Harold S. on business
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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. on business   

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

Gerber, Michael E. on business
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"I buy when other people are selling."

Getty, J. Paul on business   

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

Gilbey, Walter on business   

"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."

Goldsmith, Oliver on business   

"Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side."

Goldsmith, Oliver on business   

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"Few great men could pass personal."

Goodman, Paul on business   

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

Grove, Andrew on business   

"The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time."

Hale, Sir Matthew on business   

"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 on business   

"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. on business   

"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 on business   

"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth."

Hawken, Paul on business   

"The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be."

Hazlitt, William on business   

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"Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses."

Henderson, Bruce on business
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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 on business   

"The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision."

Hook, Harold on business   

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

Iacocca, Lee on business   

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

Iacocca, Lee on business
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"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."

Jacobs, Randall on business   

"The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain."

Jefferson, Thomas on business   

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

Kashoggi, Adnan on business   

"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. on business   

"When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again."

Khrushchev, Nikita on business   

"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 on business   

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

Kiam, Victor on business   

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

Knudsen, William on business   

"In business for yourself, not by yourself."

Kroc, Ray on business   

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

Leavitt, Theodore on business   

"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 on business   

"Business today consists in persuading crowds."

Lee, Gerald Stanley on business   

"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 on business   

"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 on business   

"Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market."

Little, Royal on business   

"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."

Luce, Henry on 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. on business   

"We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures."

Malek, Fred on business   

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

Manzi, Jim on business   

"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 on business