Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Adolt, H. V.

Best Quotes about Business

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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.

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

Ovid

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Tara Hunt

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Malek, Fred

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

12.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

13.

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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

15.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

16.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

17.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

18.

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

Blair, Tony

19.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

20.

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

Buffett, Warren

21.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Wilson, Charles E.

25.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

26.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

27.

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

Revson, Charles

28.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Morley, John

30.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

31.

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

Hook, Harold

32.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

33.

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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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

35.

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

36.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Brown, Derby

38.

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

Perot, H. Ross

39.

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

Iacocca, Lee

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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