Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Tara Hunt

Best Quotes about Business

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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

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

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

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, American

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mitchell Caplan

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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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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

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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Business is more exciting than any game.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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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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You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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

Cathcart, Jim

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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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 find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

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

George Ade

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Kiam, Victor

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Branson, Richard

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

Gerber, Michael E.

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

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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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