Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Warren Buffett

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Aldus Manutius

12.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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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

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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

17.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

18.

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.

19.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

20.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

21.

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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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

23.

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.

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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

25.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

26.

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

27.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

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

29.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

30.

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

Knudsen, William

31.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

32.

Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

34.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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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

36.

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

37.

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

Riorio

38.

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

Malek, Fred

39.

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

John Cleese

40.

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

41.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

42.

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

43.

If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

44.

A hard thing about business is minding your own

45.

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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

48.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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