Motivational Quotes

Business

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

- Tara Hunt

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Ford, Henry

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

10.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Dahlberg, Edward

12.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

14.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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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

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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

17.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

18.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

21.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

22.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

23.

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

24.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

25.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

26.

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

27.

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

Morley, John

28.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

29.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

30.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

31.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

32.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

33.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

34.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

35.

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

Blair, Tony

36.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

38.

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

39.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

40.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

41.

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.

42.

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

Grove, Andrew

43.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

44.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

45.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

46.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren