Motivational Quotes

Business

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

- Herzen, Alexander

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Walton, Sam

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Basinger, Kim

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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

11.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Allen, Fred A.

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Herzen, Alexander

13.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful.

Woods, General Robert E.

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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.

18.

If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.

Forbes, B. C.

19.

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

David Letterman

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

Rena, Peter

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Kashoggi, Adnan

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The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

25.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

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

Proverb

27.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

28.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Warren Buffett

32.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Harris, B. F.

33.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bond, Alan

37.

The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Scrutton, T. L.

39.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

40.

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

41.

It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Kiam, Victor

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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

44.

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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Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces.In the boardroom, it is different.I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.

Foulston, Nicola

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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