Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Aldus Manutius

Best Quotes about Business

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Field, Marshall

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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.

Young, Owen D.

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

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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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

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Riorio

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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Branson, Richard

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

Galvin, Robert

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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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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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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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

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