Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Olsen, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Business

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

12.

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

Morley, John

13.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

15.

We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

16.

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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

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.

19.

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

Proverb, German

20.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

21.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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

23.

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.

24.

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

25.

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

Perot, H. Ross

26.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

Riklis, Meshulam

29.

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

Tara Hunt

30.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

31.

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

Iacocca, Lee

32.

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.

33.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

34.

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

Cardenas, Ruben

35.

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

36.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

37.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

39.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

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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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

44.

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

Walton, Sam

45.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

46.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Armour, P. D.

48.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

49.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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