Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Scrutton, T. L.

Best Quotes about Business

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

David Letterman

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

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

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

Proverb, American

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

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

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Patterson, John H.

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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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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Jacobs, Randall

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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Blair, Tony

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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.

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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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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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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.

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

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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam