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

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

Adolt, H. V.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Cathcart, Jim

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

10.

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

Proverb, German

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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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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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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Walton, Sam

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

Geneen, Harold S.

22.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

30.

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

31.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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 chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Iacocca, Lee

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Morley, John