Motivational Quotes

Business

The business of the country is business.

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Tara Hunt

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

10.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

11.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

Aldus Manutius

13.

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

Ogilvy, David

14.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

15.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rena, Peter

19.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

21.

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

22.

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

Little, Royal

24.

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

Galvin, Robert

25.

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

Kiam, Victor

26.

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

Blair, Tony

27.

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.

28.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

30.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

31.

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

Walton, Sam

33.

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

Malek, Fred

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Bond, Alan

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

Iacocca, Lee

38.

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.

39.

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

Ford, Henry

40.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Coke, Sir Edward

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Field, Marshall

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.