Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Best Quotes about Business

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

George Ade

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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.

Dunn, Paul H.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

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.

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.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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

Iacocca, Lee

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No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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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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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Field, Marshall

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Branson, Richard

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin