Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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

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

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

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 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

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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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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 can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

27.

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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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

34.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

Jacobs, Randall

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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