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

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Manzi, Jim

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

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Blair, Tony

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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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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 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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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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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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

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

David Letterman

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Grove, Andrew

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Oscar Wilde

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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 can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Wilson, Charles E.

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ovid

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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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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