Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Knudsen, William

Best Quotes about Business

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Barzan, Gerald

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Ford, Henry

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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 great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

Warren Buffett

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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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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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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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 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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston