Motivational Quotes

Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Mitchell Caplan

Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hale, Sir Matthew

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

David Letterman

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Malek, Fred

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Ovid

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David

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

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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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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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

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

Thomas, Dylan

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Revson, Charles

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.