Motivational Quotes

Business

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Business

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

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

Woolworth, F. W.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Kiam, Victor

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

Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Jeffrey Veen

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

Mcnealy, Scott

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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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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Kroc, Ray

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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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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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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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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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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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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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Blanchard, Ken

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

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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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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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

Ogilvy, David

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Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

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

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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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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 happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Billings, Josh

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

Aldus Manutius

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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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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Warhol, Andy

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Perot, H. Ross

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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

Hook, Harold

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.