Motivational Quotes

Business

Get the best people and train them well.

- Merrill, Charles

Best Quotes about Business

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

Aldus Manutius

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

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

Kiam, Victor

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

10.

If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Morley, John

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

15.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

16.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Proverb

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Thomas, Dylan

25.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

26.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

28.

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.

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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

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Tara Hunt

32.

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

Hook, Harold

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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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.

39.

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

Field, Marshall

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

Branson, Richard

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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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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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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

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.