Motivational Quotes

Business

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Business

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

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

Welch, John

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Onassis, Aristotle

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Hook, Harold

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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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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

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Bond, Alan

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.