Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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.

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

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Oscar Wilde

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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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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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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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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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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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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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Blair, Tony

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Branson, Richard

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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

Walton, Sam

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.