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

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

Beene, Geoffrey

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Ogilvy, David

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Hawken, Paul

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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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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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

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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

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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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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