Motivational Quotes

Business

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

- Basinger, Kim

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Tara Hunt

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Armour, P. D.

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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

11.

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

Proverb

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Malek, Fred

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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

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

Walton, Sam

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Wang, An

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

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

Morley, John

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.