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

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Morley, John

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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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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

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

Hook, Harold

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Branson, Richard

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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Warren Buffett

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Buffett, Warren

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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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 your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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