Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Hawken, Paul

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Forbes, B. C.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Aldus Manutius

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

18.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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

Tara Hunt

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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

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

Morley, John

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

Galvin, Robert