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

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

Blair, Tony

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Adolt, H. V.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, American

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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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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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Galvin, Robert

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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

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

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

Warren Buffett

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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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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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

Ogilvy, David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Dickens, Charles

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.