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

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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

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.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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

Hook, Harold

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Revson, Charles

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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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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Welch, John