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

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

Jacobs, Randall

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

Riklis, Meshulam

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

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

George Ade

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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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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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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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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tara Hunt

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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