Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about 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

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

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

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

Bond, Alan

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Proverb, German

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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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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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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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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

John Cleese

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Basinger, Kim

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I buy when other people are selling.