Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Riklis, Meshulam

Best Quotes about Business

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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

Armour, P. D.

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.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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

11.

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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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A hard thing about business is minding your own

14.

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

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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

Field, Marshall

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Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Walton, Sam

27.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

Blair, Tony

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Ogilvy, David

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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Riorio

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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

Ford, Henry

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Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan