Motivational Quotes

Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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

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

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

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

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

Blair, Tony

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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

Proverb

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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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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 business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Hook, Harold

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Malek, Fred

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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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

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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

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

Grove, Andrew

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.