Motivational Quotes

Business

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Business

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

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Galvin, Robert

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

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

Blake, William

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Bean, L.L.

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Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

Ovid

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

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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

Walton, Sam

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In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Revson, Charles

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

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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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

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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

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

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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

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

Wang, An

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Oscar Wilde

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

Aldus Manutius

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

Jurgen Schrempp

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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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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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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

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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

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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

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Drive your business, let not your business drive you.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Get the best people and train them well.

Merrill, Charles

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

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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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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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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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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.