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 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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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

Revson, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

George Ade

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Morley, John

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

Proverb

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

Leavitt, Theodore

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

Ovid

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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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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

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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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

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Scrutton, T. L.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Iacocca, Lee

42.

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.