Motivational Quotes

Business

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

Best Quotes about Business

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Armour, P. D.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

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

Walton, Sam

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bond, Alan

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Malek, Fred

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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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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Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

Tara Hunt

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Make every decision as if you owned the whole company.

Townsend, Robert

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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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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.