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

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

10.

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

Blair, Tony

11.

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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jacobs, Randall

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Dane, Frank

18.

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

Bond, Alan

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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

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

29.

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

Proverb, American

30.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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

36.

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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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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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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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 don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

41.

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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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

46.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Tara Hunt