Motivational Quotes

Business

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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.

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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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

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, 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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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

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Ovid

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

Revson, Charles

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.