Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dumas, Alexandre

Best Quotes about Business

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

Walton, Sam

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Blair, Tony

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

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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.

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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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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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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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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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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hawken, Paul

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.