Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

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

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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.

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

Little, Royal

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Kiam, Victor

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Blair, Tony

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

Ovid

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Business is a combination of war and sport.