Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mcnealy, Scott

Best Quotes about 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

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

Forbes, B. C.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Brown, Derby

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Hawken, Paul

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Field, Marshall

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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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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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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.

19.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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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.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Revson, Charles

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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

25.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Armour, P. D.

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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.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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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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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.

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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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