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Get ahead of competition with inspiring Business Quotes

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:01:41 +0000

Want to get ahead of competition with inspiring business quotes? Then, you are at the right place and about to read motivational quotations to attain success and satisfaction at the workplace.

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. – Shakti Gawain

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? - Fanny Brice

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. – Friedrich Nietzsche

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. – Samuel Johnson

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. – Walter Kaufmann

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. – Irene C. Kassorla

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. – Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings

Business Quotes for Measuring Performance

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:38:26 +0000

When it comes to measuring performance, sky is the limit if dedication is what you strive for. This is the reason why we have compiled some of the most interesting and inspiring business quotes for performance measurement so that you can always have the last laugh.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. – Eudora Welty

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. – Voltaire

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure. – David Ambrose

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they’re always there. – Norman Vincent Peale

Say “Yes” to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say “Yes” to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say “Yes” to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. – Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man’s course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness. – Leo Tolstoy

For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it’s how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. – Joey Tolbert

Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. – Dag Hammarskjold

Motivational Business Quotes

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:47:58 +0000

If you have been searching for motivational business quotes, we are pleased to let you know that your search is over with these inspiring business quotes.

There is no respite for fatigue, stress, and negativity in the business world when motivational business quotes are around. Read on!

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. – Jay Leno

Customers don’t always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren’t enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call “the third place”.. a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn’t know they had. – Howard Schultz

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing. – John D. Rockefeller

“There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.” – A. Alfred Taubman

It’s a very, very tough market. So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right products from the manufacturers, you service the customer, they keep coming back, they bring their friends in, it’s all about numbers, numbers, numbers. – John Ilhan

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine. – Sergey Brin

Inspiring Business Quotes to keep you wanting for more!

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:00:40 +0000

If the zeal for success has diminished a bit in your stint as a business owner then these inspiring business quotes would help you get motivation and beat the competition with flying colors. The blog also comprises of management quotes so that you excel at all levels of business execution fields.

“If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings—and put compensation as a carrier behind it—you almost don’t have to manage them.” – Jack Welch

“Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.” – Paul Dickson

“Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.” – Robert H. Johnson

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.” – Ronald Reagan

“Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven’t.” – Peter Drucker

“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.” - Immanuel Kant

“Don’t equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don’t let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while. Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you’d like them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea.” – Harvey Mackay

We hope that business management quotes have helped you gain some new insights about making a business successful.

Business Leadership Quotes

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Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences. – Jawaharlal Nehru

Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him….But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. – Mary D. Poole

I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn’t up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling…(towards all his teammates.) - Knute Rockne

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. – Max DePree

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. – Bernd Brecher

Handling business operations can be tedious task but with inspiring words and zeal to do better, things can be quite easy.

Funny and inspiring business quotes to keep the mood in high spirit

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:47:35 +0000

“If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.” – Will Rogers

“Any organisation is like a septic tank. The really big chunks rise to the top.” – John Imhoff

“Today’s payslip has more deductions than a Sherlock Holmes novel.” – Raymond Cvikota

“A lot of people become pessimists from financing optimists.” – CT Jones

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it. - Will Rogers

My son is now an “entrepreneur.” That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner

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. – William Wordsworth

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller

Remember, laughter and efforts are needed at every place to ease the tough times and your workplace is no exception.

Business Quotes – Inspiring the entrepreneur in you!

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:54:51 +0000

Let us have access to some of the best words by some of the best individuals born on this earth.

Business social responsibility should not be coerced; it is a voluntary decision that the entrepreneurial leadership of every company must make on its own. – John Mackey

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they’re in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities. - Amory Lovins

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner’s greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art. – Chinese Proverb.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. - Colin Powell

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth