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

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.

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

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mcnealy, Scott

10.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

11.

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

Walton, Sam

12.

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

Ogilvy, David

13.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

14.

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

15.

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

16.

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

19.

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

Blair, Tony

20.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Morley, John

21.

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

Leavitt, Theodore

22.

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

23.

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

24.

I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

25.

Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

27.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

28.

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

Welch, John

29.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

30.

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

31.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

32.

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

34.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Geneen, Harold S.

39.

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

Wilson, Charles E.

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

48.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

49.

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

Iacocca, Lee