Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mcnealy, Scott

Best Quotes about Business

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

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

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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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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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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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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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Aldus Manutius

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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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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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

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

Shakespeare, William

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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hook, Harold

31.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

32.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

34.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Field, Marshall

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.