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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

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

Dahlberg, Edward

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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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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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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Ovid

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

Dane, Frank

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Proverb, German

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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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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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

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey 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

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

Riklis, Meshulam