Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

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

Dickens, Charles

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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

Cathcart, Jim

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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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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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Warren Buffett

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

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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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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Iacocca, Lee

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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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.