Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Ovid

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

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

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

Walton, Sam

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

Malek, Fred

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

Ovid

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

What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.

Wilson, Charles E.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

Bernbach, William

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

Olsen, Kenneth

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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

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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You can't run a business without taking risks.

Drexler, Millard

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

Bond, Alan

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

Tara Hunt

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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Cooley, Mason

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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don 't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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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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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Geneen, Harold S.

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Warren Buffett

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

Field, Marshall

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Ford, Henry

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Rothschild, Sir Nathan

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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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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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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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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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

Sydney Biddle Barrows

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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Revson, Charles

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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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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