Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Gerber, Michael E.

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Blair, Tony

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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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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Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.

Burns, M. Anthony

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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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

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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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

Barzan, Gerald

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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

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

Dane, Frank

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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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