Motivational Quotes

Business

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

- Coffin, Harold

Best Quotes about Business

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Wang, An

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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.

10.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

14.

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Blair, Tony

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Field, Marshall

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

Proverb, American

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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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

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.