Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

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

Ogilvy, David

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

Dumas, Alexandre

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

Riorio

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

10.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

12.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Galvin, Robert

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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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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

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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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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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.

21.

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 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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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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brown, Derby

31.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

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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Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Walton, Sam

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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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 more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.

Hale, Sir Matthew

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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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

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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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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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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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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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 poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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