Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kiam, Victor

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

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

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

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

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

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Blair, Tony

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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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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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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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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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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 read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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