Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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

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

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Buffett, Warren

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Walton, Sam

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Revson, Charles

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

Warren Buffett

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

Grove, Andrew

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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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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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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 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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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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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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

Armour, P. D.

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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