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

Jurgen Schrempp

The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

11.

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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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

Kiam, Victor

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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 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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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

28.

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Dickens, Charles

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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