Motivational Quotes

Business

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Riorio

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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

David Letterman

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Manzi, Jim

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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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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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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Knudsen, William

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Branson, Richard

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal