Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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

Walton, Sam

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

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Beene, Geoffrey

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

Bond, Alan

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Malek, Fred

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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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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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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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 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.

Billings, Josh

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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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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 ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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 first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Proverb, American

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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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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 a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Revson, Charles

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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