Motivational Quotes

Business

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

- Ritz, Cesar

Best Quotes about Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

George Ade

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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

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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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You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Barzan, Gerald

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If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Malek, Fred

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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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 business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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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

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

Branson, Richard

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Proverb, American

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Field, Marshall

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by -- Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Mulford Jr., Ren

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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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