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

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Blair, Tony

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Benjamin Franklin

11.

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

Bean, L.L.

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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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

Cathcart, Jim

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

15.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

17.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

18.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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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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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Smith, Adam

22.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

25.

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

Khrushchev, Nikita

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

28.

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Beene, Geoffrey

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Tara Hunt

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Branson, Richard

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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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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

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

Gerber, Michael E.

48.

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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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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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger