Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mcnealy, Scott

Best Quotes about Business

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Tara Hunt

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

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

10.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

11.

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

12.

If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

13.

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

Aldus Manutius

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

16.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

21.

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

22.

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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

27.

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

31.

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

Nevill, Dorothy

32.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

33.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

34.

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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

37.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

38.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

39.

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

Proverb

40.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

42.

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

43.

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

44.

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

Bean, L.L.

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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Dickens, Charles

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

49.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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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