Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

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

Coke, Sir Edward

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Shakespeare, William

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Basinger, Kim

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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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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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Blair, Tony

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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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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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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 has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Warren Buffett

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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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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

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Ogilvy, David

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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese