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

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Proverb, American

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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

Cathcart, Jim

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Field, Marshall

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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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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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason