Motivational Quotes

Business

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

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Best Quotes about Business

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

Proverb, German

Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly.

Aldus Manutius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mitchell Caplan

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

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

12.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Wang, An

13.

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

Perot, H. Ross

14.

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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.

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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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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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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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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

20.

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

21.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

23.

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

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

24.

Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

27.

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

Welch, John

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

31.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

32.

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

33.

If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Mophatlane, Isaac

34.

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

35.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Forbes, B. C.

38.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Bean, L.L.

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

Hawken, Paul

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If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

45.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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