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

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, German

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

Iacocca, Lee

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

10.

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

Jurgen Schrempp

11.

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

Perot, H. Ross

12.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

13.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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

Warren Buffett

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Brown, Derby

19.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

22.

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

Revson, Charles

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

24.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

25.

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

Ovid

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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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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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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

30.

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

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Bond, Alan

34.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

35.

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

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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

Elizabeth Aston

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cathcart, Jim

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

Walton, Sam

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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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If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the language of a certified public accountant analyzing a corporate balance sheet, who is to know that he understands the human problems behind the statistical ones? If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart. It is as simple as that -- but that isn't simple.

Lundborg, Louis B.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

43.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.