Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- George Ade

Best Quotes about Business

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

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

David Letterman

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

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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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Malek, Fred

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If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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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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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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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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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

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Proverb, German

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Bond, Alan

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Branson, Richard

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

George Ade

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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