Motivational Quotes

Business

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

- Malek, Fred

Best Quotes about Business

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Iacocca, Lee

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by. If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out -- either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer, who will punish you by not buying your product a second time. Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

Ogilvy, David

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

Kiam, Victor

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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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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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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A hard thing about business is minding your own

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bond, Alan

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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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I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Bristol, Lee

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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Mophatlane, Isaac

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Woolworth, F. W.

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Nevill, Dorothy

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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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When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

Khrushchev, Nikita

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

Shakespeare, William

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Gilbey, Walter

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Ceo, Harold Geneen

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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