Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Oscar Wilde

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

10.

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

11.

If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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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.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Basinger, Kim

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

18.

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

Grove, Andrew

19.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

20.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Field, Marshall

23.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Mitchell Caplan

25.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

28.

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

Armour, P. D.

29.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

30.

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

Adolt, H. V.

31.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

32.

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

33.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

37.

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

Kiam, Victor

40.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

44.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

45.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

46.

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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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles