Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Mophatlane, Isaac

Best Quotes about Business

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

Thomas, Dylan

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

Hook, Harold

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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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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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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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.

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

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

Little, Royal

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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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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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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

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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Proverb, German

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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.

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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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We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Ovid

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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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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.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Wang, An

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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

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Tara Hunt

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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