Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Kiam, Victor

Best Quotes about Business

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Townsend, Robert

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

Ford, Henry

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

Riorio

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

Olsen, Kenneth

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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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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Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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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

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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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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

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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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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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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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 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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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