Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

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

Iacocca, Lee

A hard thing about business is minding your own

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

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

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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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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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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

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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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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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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

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Armour, P. D.

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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Little, Royal

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Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Ritz, Cesar

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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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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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

Aldus Manutius

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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

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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bond, Alan

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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

Galvin, Robert

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

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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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You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Lewis, E. St. Elmo

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

David Letterman

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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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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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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.

Lee, Gerald Stanley

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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.

Seth Godin

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Riklis, Meshulam