Motivational Quotes

Business

Good design can't fix broken business models.

- Jeffrey Veen

Best Quotes about Business

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

Walton, Sam

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Geneen, Harold S.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Trump, Donald

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.

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

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

Adolt, H. V.

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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Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The business of the country is business.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

17.

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

Barzan, Gerald

18.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

19.

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

Walton, Sam

20.

You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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'Whom are you?'he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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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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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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

Branson, Richard

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

David Letterman

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

Riklis, Meshulam

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

Scrutton, T. L.

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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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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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Thomas, Dylan

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I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Woolworth, F. W.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

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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

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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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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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Churchill, Winston

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I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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