Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

4.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Armour, P. D.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

20.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Tara Hunt

22.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Revson, Charles

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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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

31.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Wang, An

33.

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

35.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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

38.

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

Blair, Tony

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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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Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

42.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

43.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

44.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

45.

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

Welch, John

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

47.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Jacobs, Randall