Motivational Quotes

Business

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Business

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

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.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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

Branson, Richard

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Ovid

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

10.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

11.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

12.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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

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

Revson, Charles

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

Barzan, Gerald

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Tara Hunt

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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.

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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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

38.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

40.

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

41.

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

Hawken, Paul

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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Proverb, German

44.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

45.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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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