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

Townsend, Robert

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

George Ade

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

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

Bond, Alan

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Adolt, H. V.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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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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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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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

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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

Cardenas, Ruben

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Manzi, Jim

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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Welch, John

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Coke, Sir Edward

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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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If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs.

Ogilvy, David

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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