Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Business

Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Knudsen, William

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

Rena, Peter

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

Wang, An

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Patterson, John H.

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

Proverb, German

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

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

10.

In business partnerships and marriage partnerships, oh, the cheating that goes on.

Proverb, American

11.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

12.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Branson, Richard

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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.

18.

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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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

20.

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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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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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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

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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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A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Riorio

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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 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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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

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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

Shakespeare, William

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The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings.Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events.They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.

Donovan, Patrick

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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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

43.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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