Motivational Quotes

Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Walton, Sam

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

Field, Marshall

The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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 business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Blair, Tony

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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Manzi, Jim

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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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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Ovid

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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 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