Motivational Quotes

Business

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Business

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Jurgen Schrempp

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Armour, P. D.

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

Field, Marshall

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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

20.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

25.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

27.

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

28.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

31.

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

Ogilvy, David

32.

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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Walton, Sam

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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Ogilvy, David

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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

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

Stuart, Edwin H.

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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

43.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Perot, H. Ross