Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

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

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

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

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

Perot, H. Ross

We have yet to see the full impact of the open, global marketplace. By 1997 all raw materials and technology will be available everywhere in the world. The only differences between countries and markets will be skill levels, education, and the level of empowerment of the workplace.

Pritchett, Lew

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 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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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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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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Field, Marshall

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.