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

Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Hawken, Paul

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Field, Marshall

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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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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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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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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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Adolt, H. V.

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.