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

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

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

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

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

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

Wang, An

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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

11.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Armour, P. D.

13.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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

20.

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Field, Marshall

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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.

25.

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

Malek, Fred

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

27.

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

Bond, Alan

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

Buffett, Warren

30.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Revson, 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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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Forbes, B. C.

45.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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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

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.