Motivational Quotes

Business

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.

Best Quotes about Business

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.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Tara Hunt

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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

Woolworth, F. W.

10.

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

11.

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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

13.

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

Proverb

15.

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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, 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

18.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

19.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

20.

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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Branson, Richard

23.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

25.

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

Morley, John

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

Rena, Peter

28.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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

30.

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

31.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

32.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

33.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

34.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

35.

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

Jacobs, Randall

36.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

39.

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

Oscar Wilde

40.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

41.

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

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

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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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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

45.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

47.

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

Little, Royal

48.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.